BIOGRAPHY

Neil Ross is a solid, versatile voiceover pro whose work runs the gamut from announcing both the Academy and Prime Time Emmy Awards telecasts to voicing outrageous cartoon characters and everything in between.

Neil has performed in over two thousand episodes of television animation creating beloved characters in a number of iconic shows including Transformers, G.I. Joe, Voltron and Spiderman: The Animated series. He was the voice of Honest John in Steven Spielberg’s An American Tail. His voice characterizations can also be heard on numerous top selling interactive games including Mass Effect, Call of Duty and Metal Gear Solid.

Neil was co-announcer on the 75th Annual Academy Awards telecast and the announcer on the 56th Annual Prime Time Emmy Awards telecast. He was also the announcer on seven AFI Life Achievement Award telecasts including the Emmy Award winning salute to Mel Brooks in 2013. Neil is currently the announcer on the ABC TV game show Press Your Luck.

He’s voiced radio and television commercials for a wide range of major retail clients including Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Kelloggs, Southwest Airlines, Volkswagen, Anheuser-Busch and many others.

He’s done promos for all the major television networks as well as cable channels and network affiliates. For five years he was the voice of Game Show Network (now GSN).

Neil Ross has narrated NOVA programs for PBS including Mars Dead or Alive and The Wright Brothers. He’s voiced A&E Biographies on Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley and E! True Hollywood Stories on Diana-Princess of Wales and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Neil narrated the Movie Magic series which ran for five seasons on Discovery.

Neil’s voice work has been heard in many Television sitcoms and feature films. Most notably in multiple episodes of Seinfeld, Robert Redford’s Quiz Show, Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy, Steven Spielberg’s Back To The Future II, Sydney Pollack’s The Interpreter and Gus Van Sant’s Milk.

Neil came to voiceover from radio where he was an air personality at legendary stations including KGMB, Honolulu, KCBQ, San Diego, KYA, San Francisco and KMPC in Los Angeles.