Biography
Fiona Macleod is an actor, voice artist, audiobook narrator, and arts publicist with a diverse career spanning more than 30 years across theatre, screen, and voice performance. From her beginnings on school stages to founding and running a theatre company and touring extensively throughout Australia, storytelling has remained at the centre of her work. An intuitive and agile performer, Fiona has built a reputation for her ability to quickly decode a script and immediately embody a wide range of characters with empathy, intelligence, and emotional truth.
As a voice artist, Fiona is known for her warmth, clarity, and versatility. Whether delivering compassion and friendliness or the voice of quiet authority with effortless gravitas, she brings authenticity and connection to every project. Collaborative, positive, and highly reliable, she is a trusted creative partner who approaches every campaign with professionalism and genuine care for the story being told.
Fiona specialises in audiobook narration, a medium that perfectly combines her love of storytelling and performance. Bringing characters and narratives to life through voice alone is her happy place, and her ability to sustain character and convey emotional depth has made her a sought-after narrator.
Her theatre credits include Oil Babies, Yellingbo, Taking the Waters, Construction of the Human Heart, and Ride. Her extensive screen work includes Goolagong, Displaced, Utopia, My Life Is Murder, Five Bedrooms, True Story with Hamish & Andy (Seasons 1 and 2), Back in Very Small Business, Wentworth, Offspring, Seven Types of Ambiguity, Laid, Paper Giants, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Satisfaction, and the feature film A Dangerous Method. Film credits also include My Melbourne Match, Noise, The Heartbreak Tour, and Little Deaths.
Alongside her performing career, Fiona currently teaches voiceover skills to third-year actors at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), sharing the knowledge and experience gained from a career dedicated to storytelling in all its forms.
As well as her commercial voice-over work, Fiona is also very much enjoys audio-book narration where she gets to do one of her favourite things – sit and read stories aloud.
Fiona Macleod
Melbourne, Home Studio
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Track 1 - WORKSAFE 2025
Track 2 - DOLLY'S DREAM
Track 3 - ACA RESPITE
Track 4 - LATROBE FINANCIAL 2025
Track 5 - PARENTHOOD
Track 6 - VINNIES AWARED 2025
Track 7 - MONASH IVF
Track 8 - CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS
Track 9 - OZBRELLA
Track 10 - DEPT OF EDUCATION
Track 11 - BMW
Gender:
FemaleAccent:
Irish, British, US various, ScottishLanguages:
EnglishAge Range:
20-30, 30-40, 40-50, 50+Talent Range:
Commercial, Non-Commercial/Narration, Promos, Characters, Accents, Singing
Fiona Macleod is an absolute joy and pleasure to work with. Not only is she an incredibly talented actress and voiceover artist, she’s a wonderful person – and a punctual one too! Fiona is an asset to any campaign, as her voice is warm and versatile.
You should hire Fiona Macleod. It’s as simple as that. She is a bonafide pleasure to work with. Her voice is unique and beautiful, with versatility enough to fit the ever-popular ‘natural’ brief, as well as the more refined corporate and retail reads. She is energetic, personable, quick to follow direction, and has one of the greatest laughs in Melbourne! Do yourself a favour and book her on your next voiceover job.
Fiona is an extremely efficient and versatile performer that can narrate in many accents with ease and authenticity. She has great stamina which allows her to work over long studio sessions, which is extremely difficult to do and remain accurate like she does. Fiona is one of our top go to voices, great to work with, fun and professional all in one.
Fiona is a shining star behind the mic in my vocal booth. Her ‘cool,no drama’ attitude whilst working on clients scripts is second to none. I would highly recommend Fiona to anyone looking for that professional touch to their project.
Fiona is an absolute dream to work with – professional, friendly and genuine. She can tackle any script you throw at her and do so with flair and a great sense of humour. Her consistency is very impressive, her tone is warm and reassuring, and her voice very versatile. She is a natural storyteller. We adore working with her!
It is now well over a decade since I first worked with Fiona in my previous role as a senior producer at ABC RN, and it’s been great to continue the working relationship in my current role as audiobook director for Square Sound. Leaving aside the obvious fact that she sounds great, I appreciate the intelligence and warmth she brings to her performances, and her professionalism.
Fiona is incredible and the whole team have loved working with her over the last few years. She has created fantastic audiobook performances with a variety of accents and makes it look easy. I certainly would not hesitate to book Fiona again
