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
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
AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST
2021
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.“
“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.“
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The unrelenting nightmare terror remains intact, reinforced by Rupert Degas’s extraordinary reading, best described as controlled, teetering on insane. A truly stunning performance.”
“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!”
“Narrator Rupert Degas is a fine mimic and voice actor. His inflection and tone remind the listener of the great English thespians.”
“Degas is a kind of verbal ventriloquist. His mimicry is remarkable.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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”
“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.”