Biography

Simon Vance began his illustrious narration career while a BBC Radio presenter and newsreader in London in 1983, and after immigrating to the United States in 1992 is now (2020) the critically acclaimed narrator of over a thousand audiobooks, winner of seventy-two AudioFile Earphone Awards, and a sixteen-time Audie Award® recipient. In fact, Simon has more Audie nominations for single-voiced titles than any other male narrator on the planet!

Simon brings the art of narration to all of his work and has received every major audiobook honor including being an Audible Narrator Hall of Fame member, an AudioFile Magazine "Golden Voice", and the inaugural Booklist Magazine "Voice of Choice". He lives in Los Angeles with his family where, not satisfied to only conquer the audiobook world, he also works as a film/TV actor.

Some of his best-selling and most critically acclaimed audiobook performances include Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (An Audie winner and of which the author herself said: "No author could hope for a more faithful and imaginative audio version"), and Rod: The Autobiography by Rod Stewart (who tweeted: "It's hilarious. The tone of his voice is perfect!"). Other well-known titles include The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series (all 21 titles), Frank Herbert's original Dune series, Stieg Larsson's Millennium series of books beginning with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Alan Moore's magnum opus Jerusalem (10 years in the writing and over 60 hours long in audio).

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Simon Vance