Kathleen Garrett on the red carpet for Showtime’s THE FIRST LASY
About
Kathleen Garrett is an actress, voice-over talent, writer, audition and voice-over coach. Classically trained in New York and London, her range runs the gamut of roles from drama queens in Greek tragedies to slapstick comediennes in sitcoms.
Kathleen is a recipient of a Screen Actors Guild Award, The Drama Critics Circle Award, Garland Award, LA Weekly Award, Robbie Award, and Ovation Nomination. She is one of the few actors to be awarded the international Clio Award and The Women’s League of Advertising Award (Lulu Award) for Best Performance in a commercial.
Her extensive voice-over work includes national campaigns, video games, narrations on series, mini-series, and documentaries. But her voice for the FRIDAY THE 13th movie trailers caused much controversy. Read all about it…
FRIDAY THE 13th TRAILERS’ CONTROVERSY (this is really cool)
Kathleen Garrett voice matches the original Mrs. Voorhees so well Paramount Studios was threatened with a lawsuit. Wikipedia writes:
“ Upon release of the trailer, Betsy Palmer (the original Mrs. Voorhees) was notified that the voice sounded like her, yet she had never given permission for the studio to use her voice. Palmer concluded that they had taken an audio sampling of her from the original film. In their defense, Paramount stated that they had used a voice double. Bill Neil has gone on record stating that he was present when Kathleen Garrett was in the recording studio reciting the dialogue from the original film...”
Kathleen voices the controversial teaser trailer for the remake of "FRIDAY THE 13th."
As an acting and voice-over coach, Kathleen’s decades of experience provides the actor with insight into script analysis and techniques specifically for auditions.