Peter Berkrot

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Peter Berkrot
Born (1959-05-18) May 18, 1959 (age 64)
Years active1980–present
Known for Acting, voice acting, audiobooks
Notable workAngie in Caddyshack (1980)
I. M. Meen in I. M. Meen (1995)

Peter Berkrot (born May 18, 1959) is an American voice actor, stage actor, director, producer, and freelance writer who has worked in television, the movie industry, video games, and theatre. [1] [2] He also runs his own acting school called New Voices, and he writes article for American Theatre Magazine as well. [1] [3]

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He has worked in the television series America's Most Wanted , Unsolved Mysteries , and PBS Frontline . [2] Berkrot's voice work in video games include Ignatius Mortimer Meen and Gnorris in I.M. Meen and Chill Manor and a jewelry merchant in Darkened Skye . [4]

Berkrot is a voice over actor and audiobook narrator with 150 audiobooks and over 100 children's titles to his credit. He has won three Earphones Awards and was nominated for an Audie Award for the narration of Buddha Standard Time in 2012.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

In November 1988, he married Karen A. Schionning.

He is a former resident of Newburyport. [5]

Circa 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts. [5] In 2020, he described "working from his 4-foot-by-4-foot soundproof booth", while his son Misha Berkrot operated the production panel outside of the booth. [5] Circa 2020, Berkrot "[read] for a living, from morning until evening, whether it is performing at home in his sound studio or preparing for one of his recordings." [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Peter Berkrot – "Richard" Archived May 4, 2005, at the Wayback Machine . Pale Moon Productions Biography. Accessed June 9, 2009.
  2. 1 2 Peter Berkrot Archived May 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine . newenglandfilm.com Posted October 18, 2009. Accessed June 9, 2009.
  3. "LEXINGTON, READING HIGH SCHOOLS SHARE THRILLING DRAMA IN REAL LIFE ". By Cate McQuaid. Boston Globe . Published March 30, 1998.
  4. "Peter Berkrot". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 19 February 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  5. 1 2 3 4 Writer, Gail McCarthy Staff. "Creativity amid crisis: Stories provide escape in time of upheaval". Gloucester Daily Times. Retrieved 2022-11-06.