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Henry Strozier is an actor/narrator who was a resident company member of eleven professional theatres around the country: The Asolo, Baltimore's Center Stage, The Barter Theater, The Loretto-Hilton, The Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, The Missouri Rep, The Milwaukee Rep, The American Players Theater, the beloved Totem Pole Playhouse and Arena Stage. He was at Arena for 16 years. He has also appeared at Williamstown, The Guthrie, The Westport Country Playhouse, The Missouri Rep, the Olney Theater, The Bucks County Playhouse, Rutgers (guest artist), East Carolina, Marriott Lincolnshire, the Pinehurst Playhouse, and D.C.'s Studio Theater. In addition, he has also worked on and off Broadway.

He was in 50 productions at Arena Stage, including Karl in The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Edgar in Dance of Death, The Captain in The Father, Schill in The Visit, the Leading Man in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Harpagon in "The Miser", Lord Summerhays in "Misalliance", and Uncle Billy in A Wonderful Life.

He was nominated for 4 Helen Hayes Awards (Wash D.C.) and won for Shpigelsky in the 1995 production of Turgenev's A Month in The Country. In Chicago, he was proud to be part of the cast of The Last Meeting of The Knights of the White Magnolia which won a Jefferson Award for Best Ensemble. His first professional acting job, as an apprentice at the Barter Theatre in 1960, was opposite Ned Beatty in Regions of Noon.

Broadway and Off-Broadway plays include Art, Judgment at Nuremberg, A Question of Mercy, Spinning Into Butter, Wonderland, Andorra, McReel, The Persians, and Right You Are. His film and TV career includes roles in 13 Days, Contact, Sex in the City. Law and Order, Homicide, You Don't Know Jack, Birch Interval, Mary White, Dr. Max (with Lee J. Cobb), Kidnapped, the Whoopie Goldberg show, and Damages.

Strozier was the original male voice of The Discovery Channel, the narrator of two PBS series, 1900 House and Manor House and the narrator of the Animal Planet Series, Too Cute!, for which he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. His career includes voice-over for movie trailers, The Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic numerous video games, commercials, and political spots that support Democrats.

He has been reading for Recorded Books since the company began and has recorded over 100 books. He has won several "Golden Earphones," and an Audie in 2016.

He is very grateful for his 13 year run as one of the two cranberry bog characters in the Ocean Spray commercials, which allowed him to stand in a Cranberry bog in Rockefeller Center, meet wonderful people across the country, and work with some of the best people in the world, the actual Cranberry growers.

He served 3 years in the Army, and has a B.A. with Honors in English, from the University of Iowa.

Played the voice of the Ploxis alien in the hit PC game &quot;Star Control 3&quot;.

(August 2002) Plays Lingley in &quot;Outward Bound&quot; play by Sutton Vane (Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, Connecticut, USA).

Voice over / Narrator for PBS reality shows &quot;1900 House&quot; and &quot;Manor House&quot;

Voice over / Narrator for PBS shows &quot;Warrior Challenge&quot;

(February 2005) Plays Jim Cragen and others in &quot;McReele&quot; play by Stephen Belber (The Laura Pels Theatre, New York City, New York, USA).

TV commercials for Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice (paired with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0353415/?ref_=nmwrk">Justin Hagan</a>).

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