This Mary Wells trained as an actress at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1998, and began the regular back and forth to LA in 2009. She uses her full name, Mary-Jane Wells, for voice work which has been regular for 14 years in narration and commercial, and full time since 2012. Work in the UK also embraced a balance of classic and new work for theatre and many tours, and lead and supporting roles for film and TV. Before leaving Scotland, she was in Jo Clifford's radical adaptation of Faust, parts One and Two at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, (nominated for 12 awards), the title role of Electra ... more in David Hare's adaptation with The Voice Studio in London, and the Irish lead in Cuchulainn, Hound of Ulster performing at the Smithsonian, in Washington DC. She performed Cyprus after its West End transfer to Trafalga Studios, London and from there departed for sunnier shores for a residency with Honolulu theatre in Hawai'i for a year – playing Aerial in The Little Mermaid. She returned to the UK for BBC drama - Half Moon Investigates, where she played series regular, the hapless Miss Heeley. She decided to make a home in LA after performing 2 Broadway tours of the Red Balloon and Martha across the United States and Canada. Both shows enjoyed successful runs at the New Victory theatre in New York, the Mark Taper Forum and the Kennedy Centre. She won the coveted Victor Audience Award for Best Play for her solo show Martha from the Annenberg Centre. On arrival in LA she hosted the twice monthly Mary Wells Show aired to a cult following on KCLAFM which was described as a mixture of 'relevant irreverent feature and talk' and worked as an on-camera actress, winning an LA Comedy Award for Divine White’s Introduction to Hollywood, and festival awards with indie film hit Elena Undone. A Perfect Ending lauched at the BFI in London and at Frameline, San Francisco, where she played opposite John Heard and Morgan Fairchild. She Crazy Bitches for Film McQueen in which she is a lead has just picked up distribution from TWC and Comcast. Her duet with Gerard Butler in Dreamwork’s How To Train Your Dragon 2 is eligible for an Oscar for Best Original song 2015. She also did all Cate Blanchett’s ADR and has also matched Judi Dench (Marigold Hotel 2) and Nicole Kidman (Paddington). Latterly, she was the series voice for BBC3‘s My Childhood which won a BAFTA, the campaign voice for Eharmony, Puma, LinkedIn, Think Finance and Jet2 Holidays and has happily voiced many documentaries, animations and videogames in her own home studio, with an eye to developing motion capture. She is also the voice of the 2 books that officially inspired Downton Abbey, entitled Below Stairs and Climbing the Stairs, and is the voice of another 30 audiobooks, winner of Audible Romance Swoon preferred narrator 2016 and winner of Audiofile Narrator for Wages of Sin, 2017. www.maryjanewells.org less