Audiobooks

“As a multi award-winning audio producer of 30 years, I have worked with hundreds and hundreds of voices. Rupert is at the top of the tree with only a very few others.”

Peter Rinne
Audiobook Producer – London

Rupert has decades of experience narrating audiobooks, with some 300 titles to his credit. His extensive catalogue showcases his remarkable ability to bring different characters to life with his voice. He has received particular critical acclaim for his performances of The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss and for Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy.

In 2022 Rupert was inducted as a Golden Voice by AudioFile Magazine. What is a Golden Voice? According to AudioFile, “a Golden Voice narrator exemplifies the very best in audiobook talent, and AudioFile bestows the highest honour in audiobook narration on voice artists who have made significant contributions to the audiobook art form.” Since 1992 AudioFile has given this lifetime achievement honour to just 38 audiobook narrators including Miriam Margolyes, Jim Dale, Martin Jarvis, and Derek Jacobi. Great company indeed!

Multi Award-Winning Audiobook Narrator

“Rupert Degas is the most versatile of narrators and chill menace is his forte, so when you turn on his narration get ready to turn into a hypnotised rabbit.”

The Times
London

Mammoth audiobook
Beau Geste audiobook
Zero Day Code audiobook
Animal Farm audiobook
Flanagan's Run by Tom McNab - Audiobook read by Rupert Degas

“Rupert is, by far, the most talented voice actor I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. He has a dazzling ability at creating character voices, which he makes sound effortless. The elasticity of his vocal range is akin to that of Jim Carrey’s face!”

William Dufris

Audiobook Producer – Portland, Maine

Audiobook Narration Awards

Winner

2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 & 2022

Winner

(Full Cast) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, & 2008

Winner

2008

Best Voice of the Year Winner

2008 & 2009

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AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

2021

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Golden Voice: AudioFile's lifetime achievement honour

2022

AudioBook Reviews

Veteran voice actor Rupert Degas narrates this wonderful take in a well-paced, matte-finished voice, nicely capturing the prevailing moods of ruefulness, melancholy and gentle comedy.

Katherine A. Powers – The Washington Post

The ability to transform his voice is almost scary, and the list of accents he can do is extraordinary. He is just such a master at audio performance.

Jo Reed - Behind the Mic Podcast

“For me, the highlight of this aptly named essential collection is Rupert Degas’s reading from The Jungle Book – serious, passionate and without a trace of that tiresome anthropomorphic sentimentality most readers feel obliged to adopt when reading children’s books. Children be damned – it’s far too good for kids.”

The Guardian

“It’s great fun made considerably merrier by Rupert Degas’s deliberately OTT range of voices, from Steptoe to Gielgud to Gollum. A veritable tour de force.”

The Guardian

“Degas performs the entire novel in a flawless American accent, with Japanese names, phrases, and place names read with a believable Japanese accent. Once Degas starts reading, it’s nearly impossible to stop listening to this oddly brilliant psychological thriller.”

Audiofile Magazine

“The unrelenting nightmare terror remains intact, reinforced by Rupert Degas’s extraordinary reading, best described as controlled, teetering on insane.  A truly stunning performance.”

The Guardian

“Rupert Degas has a huge repertoire of voices and accents, and he’s just a pleasure to listen to. The best narrator I’ve ever heard? Yes, I think so!”

Steven A. McKay – Historical Fiction Author

“Narrator Rupert Degas is a fine mimic and voice actor. His inflection and tone remind the listener of the great English thespians.”

Audiofile Magazine

“Degas is a kind of verbal ventriloquist. His mimicry is remarkable.”

Audiofile Magazine

“Degas combines skillful characterizations with nuanced narration in a thrilling performance. He assigns each character a unique identity with accents, pitch, and other vocal personality traits. He perfectly paces the story’s rise in dramatic tension.”

Audiofile Magazine

“In this six-hour audiobook, television and film actor Rupert Degas performs a dazzling act of ventriloquism breathing technicolor life into the whole range of characters from Aussie bushranger to Irish wife and British magistrate.”

York Leisure

“Rupert Degas is pitch-perfect capturing the nasally voices of the Americans and Sir Simon’s exasperated harrumphs – which turn, later, into sighs of relief as somebody finally pities him. Degas gives listeners a hilarious performance that’s an ideal antidote for the shivers if you’ve seen Parnormal Activity”

The LA Times

“It is read by a master of vocal characterisation. He reads an Irish tween girl as convincingly as an adult woman, and he has a vast repertoire of deep, hoarse, whispery, croaky, etc. that he gleefully applies to everyone else in the book.”

PinkMe.com

“Rupert Degas is a great storyteller and has such an impressive range of character voices. The children’s titles he narrates are so good to listen to. He adds to the drama of the narrative and interprets the written word and illustrations. He has great energy and is a consistent performer.”

Tess Moloney

Publishing Operations Manager Bolinda – Melbourne

Rupert made some superb recordings for me at Naxos Audiobooks, as varied as Conan Doyle’s ‘Brigadier Gérard’, Haruki Murakami’s masterpiece ‘The Wind-up Bird Chronicle’, Tom McNab’s entertaining ‘Flanagan’s Run’; and he played the title role in my BBC Radio full-cast drama of Beaumarchais’ ‘The Marriage of Figaro’.  His pitch-perfect characterisation in each recording – set in four different countries – was amazing.  And now I have just listened to ‘Scrublands’, the gripping thriller which unfolds in deeply rural Australia. The same voice?  Unbelievable.”

Nicolas Soames Ukemi Audiobooks

Nicolas Soames

Ukemi Audiobooks – United Kingdom