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Jean Brassard
Location New York, United States
Experience Level
71+ Audiobooks
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Jean’s Roles
  • Actor
  • Actors Equity Association
  • Friendly
  • Narrator
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 an Earphones Award with the cast of Muriel Barbery’s Gourmet Rhapsody, Jean Brassard is the narrator of more than 70 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 and a few James Paterson thrillers as well as Canadian Eric Dupont’s international saga The American Fiancee, the gothic cult tale The Werewolf of Paris, Canadian J.Robert Janes St-Cy and Kohler Mystery crime series. As an actor, Jean can be seen in current seasons of MacGyver, The Black ... more list 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, based on John Green’s highly acclaimed novel with Shailene Woodley’s and Ansel Elgort; the current A Call To Spy now on Amazon videos. 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 in The Lears. Well known to French-speaking wrestling fans for his commentary on the WWE Network, Jean is an accomplished singer-songwriter and he recently returned from London where he performed his homage to Charles Aznavour “I Have Lived,” to great reviews and popular acclaim. 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. Bigmondemusique.com. 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
  • The American Fiancée
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Literary/General
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    Base Accent: Other
    Dialects:
    Keywords: Narration, Saga, Quebec, Germany, Italy, family story, novel
  • 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
  • The Lost Manuscript
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Romance
    Gender/Age: Male - Older
    Base Accent: Other
    Dialects: European
    Keywords: epistolary novel, character, male, French accent
  • 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