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Jean Brassard
Location New York, United States
Experience Level
71+ Audiobooks
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Jean’s Roles
  • Bilingual English-French
  • Earphones Award recipient
  • Narrator
  • SAG-AFTRA
Jean’s Skills
  • Accents
  • Actors Equity Association
  • Adobe Premiere
  • American accent
  • Animation
  • Appears on Netflix
  • Audio Description Voicing
  • Audio Movies
  • Audiobook Narrartor/ Actress
  • Audiobook narrator
  • Audiobooklover
  • Audiodrama
  • Award-winning
  • Award Winning Solo Show
  • Bicyclist
  • Bilingual
  • Cabaret singing
  • Canadian
  • Characters
  • Classic Literature Narration
  • Classical
  • Comedic
  • Commercials
  • Composer
  • Contemporary Romance
  • Cooking
  • Corporate voiceover
  • Earphones Award Winner
  • ELearning
  • Fiction
  • Film Actor
  • Fitness
  • Fitness Expert
  • Fluent French
  • Flute
  • French
  • French accent
  • General American accent
  • German Accent
  • Grammar
  • Home recording
  • Humor
  • IMovie
  • Irish accent
  • Italian Accent
  • Italian speaker
  • Language proficiency in Italian - French - German - Russian
  • LGBT Fiction
  • LGBT Non-fiction
  • LGBT Romance
  • LGBT Young Adult
  • Lit Fiction
  • Live Broadcaster
  • Male Model
  • Music producer
  • Musician
  • Mystery
  • Narrator
  • Nonfiction
  • Photoshop
  • Pianist
  • Piano
  • Playwright
  • Poetry
  • Psychological Thrillers
  • Punch and roll editing
  • REAPER
  • Regional American accents
  • Romance
  • SAG-AFTRA
  • Shakespeare
  • Singer
  • Singer - BariTenor
  • Singing - Baritone
  • Songwriter
  • Soothing
  • Source Connect
  • Spanish Speaker
  • Storyteller
  • Storytelling
  • Storytellling
  • Suspense
  • Teaching
  • Television Actor
  • Theatre acting
  • Theatre Actor
  • Thriller
  • Thrillers
  • Trilingual
  • TV/Film Actor
  • Various American accents
  • Various European Accents
  • Various Voices
  • Vocalist
  • Voice Over Teacher
  • Writer
  • Writing
Description
About Jean

Recipient of multiple Earphones Awards, the latest for Louise Penny’s The Grey Wolf and selected by Audiofile Magazine as a Best Audiobook Narration of 2024, and featured on the its cover for the Fall 2025 edition for Ms. Penny’s The Black Wolf, Jean is the narrator of nearly 100 audiobooks in English and French (for both Quebec and Europe), including the English version of the Prix Goncourt 2018, And Their Children After Them by Nicolas Mathieu, Emmanuel Macron’s Revolution, Umberto Eco The Prague cemetery, a few James Paterson thrillers as well as the gothic cult tale The Werewolf of Paris among many others. Featured in Pa ... more ul Schrader’s new film Oh, Canada, and Ari Selinger’s On The End, Jean can be seen in many HBO series, including The Staircase, John Adams, Sex and The City and The Sopranos as well as in seasons of CBS MacGyver, NBC The Blacklist and EMMY and Golden Globe award-winning series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Ramy and Escape at Dannemora. Also: Person of Interest, The Wizard of Lies, House of Cards, Zero Hour, 30 Rock, John Adams. In movies: The Fault In Our Stars,; A Call To Spy. Other movies include The Caller, Death in Love, Ten Stories Tall, Mango Bajito and J.C. Khoury’s romantic cult comedy The Pill. He received critical praise from the New York Times among others for his role as Ambassador in Film Chinois at Pan Asian Rep and in Theater Pizzaz for The Lears. Well known to French-speaking wrestling fans for his commentary on the WWE Network, Jean is also an accomplished singer-songwriter and cabaret performer; his homage to Charles Aznavour “I Have Lived,” received to both great reviews and popular acclaim in New York and London. He is a BISTRO and AGGIE awards recipient for his tribute show “The Kid From Paris – Jean Brassard Sings Yves Montand” for which he also garnered a MAC nomination; the show has traveled in the States, Canada and Europe. In New York he has performed at New York’s Birdland’s, Laurie Beechman Theater, Metropolitan Room, The Triad, Helen’s Hideaway and The Café at the Pierre Hotel; Jean was also awarded a NightLife Award. He was seen at Symphony Space’s Wall To Wall Cabaret alongside Uteh Lemper and many cabaret greats. He also represented Quebec at the first Manhattan International Cabaret Festival in 2016. With Le Gamin de Paris CD, his homage to Montand, his album DIX, a collection of his own compositions, has been praised by the press. less

Featured Works
  • The Werewolf of Paris on Audible
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Thriller/Mystery
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    Base Accent: American
    Dialects: American - Other
    Keywords: English, dialogue, werewolf, mystery, French, Paris
  • La faim du monde
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Thriller/Mystery
    Gender/Age: Male - Adult
    Base Accent: Other
    Dialects: European
    Keywords: French, European, Novel, Suspense, thriller
  • Bain de sang
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Thriller/Mystery
    Gender/Age: Male - Older
    Base Accent: Other
    Dialects: European
    Keywords: Quebecois, thriller, French, detective, first person narration
  • Them Old Cowboy Songs
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Literary/General
    Gender/Age: Male - Adult
    Base Accent: American
    Dialects: American - Southern
    Keywords: Southern, novel, country
  • Madame Bovary
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Romance
    Gender/Age: Male - Adult
    Base Accent:
    Dialects: European
    Keywords: French, British, multiple characters
  • Louise Penny - The Grey Wolf
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Thriller/Mystery
    Gender/Age:
    Base Accent:
    Dialects: American - Standard
    Keywords: Suspense, Louise Penny, Thriller, Three Pines, Canadian literature, Armand Gamache
  • Umberto Eco - The Prague Cemetery
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Literary/General
    Gender/Age: Male - Older
    Base Accent:
    Dialects:
    Keywords: Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery, European literature, thriller
  • In Search of Perfume - Dominique Ro
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    Genre(-s): Nonfiction - Inspirational
    Gender/Age: Male - Older
    Base Accent: Other
    Dialects:
    Keywords: perfumes, non-fiction, essay, Dominique Roques