Tim Russell
VOICE TALENT & ACTOR
SAG-AFTRA
Tim Russell is a radio personality and voice actor (SAG-AFTRA). He’s noted for his versatility, comic timing and variety of announcer and character voice styles. As an actor, since 1994, on A Prairie Home Companion, a nationally known Public Radio show heard weekly by over four million listeners, Tim worked with the show’s creator Garrison Keillor and now with new host Chris Thile, providing dozens of character voices and impersonations in the show’s popular comedy sketches. On the big screen, Tim has appeared in films by Robert Altman (“A Prairie Home Companion”), The Coen Brothers (“A Serious Man”), has worked with Oliver Stone, providing voices for his series, “The Untold History of the United States”. Tim’s latest film appearance is in the Irish production, “I am Not a Serial Killer”.
To learn how Tim Russell got his start as a radio personality and actor, read his Career History.
News
Intro to my Minnesota Broadcasters Hall of Fame Induction 10/03/23
https://youtu.be/DQB2RfRbTK0Wonderful night, great honor, congratulations to the other inductees: Jim Bartels, Mary Campbell, Boyd Huppert and Lee Valsvik!
2023 INDUCTEE, MINNESOTA BROADCASTERS HALL OF FAME
What an honor! Thanks to all the co-workers who’ve made this possible. It’s such a blessing to do what you love doing for work. Congratulations to all the other inductees.
“My First Concert” With Dave Lee
Radio Giant Dave Lee was kind enough to invite me to his Podcast, "My First Concert". We talked about my adventures at the first Woodstock Concert and my years with Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion and the artists and celebrities I was fortunate enough to...
A Prairie Home Companion American Revival
February 28, 2022 GARRISON KEILLOR TAKES HIS A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION AMERICAN REVIVAL TO THE RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATREonMONDAY, MAY 2, 2022, 7:30 p.m. SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDEcountry superstar and Grand Ole Opry member BRAD PAISLEY Rock & Roll and Blues...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Memories of “Dracula Baby “, Dubuque Community Theater 1972, and my “A Prairie Home Companion “ friends, Tom Keith, Sue Scott and Fred Newman https://youtu.be/rzPH4UdNv70
On Year Ago Today: Stuck in Covid Prison. Today: Fully Vaccinated, daily walk without mask!
https://youtu.be/grYzLrhuqrw
Tim Russell DEMOS
Commercial Demo
Animation Demo
A Prairie Home Companion Radio Show Excerpts
TO BOOK OR AUDITION:
To hire Tim Russell: contact Amy Oppegaard of Wehmann Models and Talent, Inc. in Minneapolis at 612.333.6393.
LA representation: Contact Wes Stevens of VOX in Los Angeles at 323.655.8699.