Natasha's Profile

 

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Biography

Natasha works in her native Russian,native Ukrainian and English with Russian, Eastern-European accents. She is a qualified linguist from Kiev State Linguistic University and studied at the drama Studio London. Her theatre credits include Lucile in "Love and the Piano", Greenwich Playhouse, Ivonne in "My Wife's Dead Mother", Greenwich Playhouse, Antigone in "Antigone", Tehuti Theatre Production, Mrs. Vicks in "An Enemy of The People", Union Theatre, Irina in "Suzanna", Lion and Unicorn. Recently Natasha appeared in an episode of the British sitcom "Rev", BBC.

Natasha's clear and warm voice is used a lot in automated systems, her Russian credits include in-car navigations for Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Honda, Alpine portable navigation system, TSM telephone systems, Ergoline Sunbeds, Prague Automated Tourist Guide, Boat Safety Announcements for Arckley and Galactica and many more. Ukrainian automates systems work include BAKU in-car navigation for Mazda, Microsoft automated systems, Hotmail, F.A.C.T.S medical automated systems, Airlines Safety Announcements for Lufthansa, KLM, Turkish Airlines, BMI, Sky Europe and Cimber Air.

Natasha's educational recordings include projects of various complexity from "First Russian Words", Oxford University Press to "Global Tax Independence E-learning Program", PricewaterhouseCoopers. Natasha also worked with Cambridge University Press, Chambers Harrap Publishers, John Green TEFL, Pearson Education in Russian and English languages. Her clear Russian voice was used in Russian University of Cambridge International Examinations.

Her Corporate Recordings include a great variety of customers and products: Russian work for United Nations, EBRD, Amway, Abbott, Philips, Vidal Sassoon, DHL, CSP, Timotei, Interoute, ISF, PokerStars, Vicks, Absolute Vodka, Stolichnaya Vodka; Ukrainian work for EBRD, Amway, Microsoft, Sony, Clarks, Dairy Farming; her English with the accent was used by Diesel, Stolichnaya Vodka, Abbott, O2.

Natasha voiced quite a few documentaries for ITV, BBC, Discovery Channel and Sky TV; she worked in ADR/Lip Sync for Miramax "The Debt", MGM "Shanghai", BBC "Archangel", "Waking The Dead", "Spooks", MTV "Transit", Paramount "Defiance" and many more.

Natasha voiced Russian TV commercials for PokerStrars, Arla Apetina, Pampers, Pantene, Vagisil,  Activa Candy; and Ukrainian TV comercials for Braun and Clarks. Her voiced was also used by other Clients for the commercial research, such as Always, Dove, Huggies, GE Fabbri, Twinings.

Natasha worked for BBC Radio Drama and had all principal roles in the following radio plays: Yara in "Forty Three, Fifty Nine - Yara", for this role Natasha did a Chechen accent in Russian for part of the script; Anja in "Ariel"; Magda in "Dreaming in English", about a Polish girl torn between a comfotable lifestyle in England and her duty to the family in Poland, Tanya in the"King Of Pripyat", about mysterious events in Chernobyl and a story of a female Ukrainian scientist; Lena Korolev in "Doctor Who, Singularity".

Natasha also works in Cartoon Voices and Character Voices and she is the Russian voice of My Little Pony toy produced by Hasbro Europe, Ukrainian voice of Chuck the Truck by Hasbro Europe and Cookie Sorter Toy produced by Fisher-Price. Natasha worked for Disney channel in the Ukrainian language and voiced all of their promos during the channel launch period in the Ukraine. She was one of the Russian voices in BAFTA winner "Half Life 2" Computer Game, and main character Pilot Lidia in "The Great Battles of WWII" Computer Game, which she did in English with a Russian accent.

Natasha recently started to do supervision and voice directing and had completed her first 2 jobs in this field, those were Russian directing and supervision for Nicorette and Ukrainian supervision for Disney Channel.

Voice Quality: clear, natural, warm, energetic, precise, emotional, trendy, fresh, smiling, funny, concerned, sophisticated, confident, comfortable.

Radio Training: Drama Studio London

Drama Training: Drama Studio London; The Actors’ Theatre School UK, Cold Reading with Margie Haber.

Qualifications: Linguist, Specialist Degree

Membership: Equity

 

Reviews: "Natasha ably creates a level of desperation and mistrust from the truly tragic character…" by Matt Gaynor; "Lena proves an emotional hit, never feeling like a cliche thanks to a beautiful performance by Natasha …"by Joe Ford; "Natasha Radski is excellent as Lucile…" Emma Whitlaw, Indie London;

Voice for Video/computer game "HALF LIFE 2" - BAFTA winner THE BEST GAME.


Testimonials:

“Thanks very much for your work! I guess you must have had tougher jobs in your career - but I was listening over to the piece in the sound dub - and the bits you did, you got just right” David Donnelly, Producer, ITV.

 “I have used Natasha on several IVR/Voicemail as well as On Hold projects and would highly recommend her. Excellent customer service and fast turnaround. Communication with Natasha is excellent too”.  Gary F. Neill, President, On Hold Marketing, USA.

“Natasha recorded script for an Autodesk internal training session. Files were received within the deadline in correct format. Pronunciation of technical terms that remained in English was perfect. Client picked Natasha’s voice from a lineup of 4 potential voice talents” Juliet Boggio, Global Edge Solutions, USA.

 

 

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