Biography

Colin Cassidy is a professional voice actor and impressionist, a dual British and Australian citizen and is most recently known as the voice of Severus Snape in the ‘Harry Potter: Magical Movie Moments’ TV series in America and the iconic voice of Toucan Sam for Kelloggs Froot Loops globally.

Colin Cassidy is best known for his versatility, switching between US, UK, Australian and other accents and characters – from intimate big brand reads to light friendly cough medicines. His notable recent roles include that of Sir David Attenborough, where he performs alongside Hugo Weaving in the 2021 film ‘Lone Wolf’. His voice also features in a number of children’s animated TV productions including the 2022 production of ‘Vegesaurs’ as an adventurous British narrator, ‘Spongo Fuzz & Jalapeña’ as the eccentric voice of Snowden and 7 other lovable characters, ‘Berry Bees’ as the evil nemesis Aaron Mirage, ‘Alice Miranda 1 & 2’ as half a dozen characters including Bony the Pony and the conniving Lord Lloyd Lancaster Brown. Most recently he’s just concluded voicing over a dozen characters for the Australian series of ‘FriendsZSpace’ produced by Flying Bark.

Colin Cassidy has played a Jeremy Irons styled animated Lion, a high-pitched New York street cat, provided gaming voices for the ‘Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid’ franchise, space marines, ogres, super intelligent spaceship computer systems, robots, creatures and warlords for Warhammer 40K (‘Horus Heresy’, ‘Adeptus Titanicus Dominus’ and others). His daily schedule may consist of anything from TV and radio commercials, pirate battle scenes, stadium announcements, explainer and eLearning videos to a myriad of interactive children’s toys, prompting Colin’s young nephew to ask, ‘Mummy, is Uncle Colin’s soul in that robot?’.

In 2020 Colin Cassidy was awarded a Gold Promax North America Award for his British accented vocal performance on Britbox. In 2019 he was awarded a London International Advertising Award and a New York Festival Award for his impression of Morgan Freeman and President Donald Trump. Other awards include New Zealand Radio Awards, Australian Commercial Radio Awards and various UK Vox Awards – some of which were won during his time as a copywriter and Creative Director in Australia and the UK.

Colin Cassidy is based out of Sydney, Australia, has his own professional recording studio, holds a Diploma of Speech Communications, a Diploma of Financial Planning (RG146), a CertIV in Training & Assessment and a BA in Media Communications & Economics from Southern Cross University Australia.

Colin Cassidy
Sydney, Home Studio

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  • Gender:
    Male
  • Accent:
    New Zealand, British, US various, International, European, French, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Russian, South African
  • Languages:
    English
  • Age Range:
    20-30, 30-40, 40-50, 50+
  • Talent Range:
    Commercial, Non-Commercial/Narration, Promos, Characters, Accents, Singing
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