Tim Russell

VOICE TALENT & ACTOR
SAG-AFTRA

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.

All of the wonderful characters…Dusty and Fred Farrell and all of Guy Noir’s various clients, not to mention thugs, demented geezers, Japanese waiters, Russians, Swedes, French maître d’, and of course the ever-amazing impersonations of celebrities and politicians: Obama, Trump, and all of the others…such a joy for…a writer. A bewildering plethora of possibilities.
Garrison Keillor

News

“127 Hours”: Time Well Spent

by | Nov 18, 2010

We'll be seeing James Franco on the Best Actor Nominee list for his performance in "127 Hours", produced by the gang that brought you last years Best Picture, "Slumdog Millionaire". Director Danny Boyle describes this movie as an "action film about a guy who can't...

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MSPfilmfest “Asian Film Festival” Underway

by | Nov 3, 2010

The Film Society of Minnesota begins it's Asian Film Festival, "In Search Of Asia", tonight at the St. Anthony Main Theater in Minneapolis. 30 films, 12 countries, though November 13. I will Emcee the Opening Night festivities tonight (11/3), introducing the director...

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The Wall is Amazing!

by | Oct 28, 2010

If you get a chance to see Roger Waters and "The Wall" on tour do it, it will blow your mind. A combination of incredible musicians, an astounding set with unsurpassed technology and animation creating an unforgettable evening for "Pink Floyd" fans and newcomers...

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Tim Russell Will Hit “The Wall”

by | Oct 26, 2010

Tomorrow night I'm seeing the 21 truck Extravaganza, "The Wall" at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. Last night I had the backup singers for Roger Waters over for dinner. They are my cousins Pat and Kipp Lennon (brothers of the famous Lennon Sisters) and another...

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Secretariat: I Got The Horse Right Here…

by | Oct 7, 2010

Who doesn't love a good Horse Movie? Some of my favorites include Phar Lap, about the Australian Racehorse of the '30's, and the very popular Seabisquit, a depression era horse that lifted our nation's spirits. The Disney folks have done a fine job with Secretariat,...

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Tim Russell DEMOS

Commercial Demo

by Tim Russell

Animation Demo

by Tim Russell

A Prairie Home Companion Radio Show Excerpts

by Tim Russell

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.

…Tim as the mafioso, callow youth, Yale smoothie, prickly curmudgeon, Paris boulevardier, Russian artiste, Swedish sourpuss, and cowpoke president…
Garrison Keillor

Tim Russell is well-known among writers, producers and engineers of commercial audio as one of the finest voice actors in the nation. I have had the pleasure of working with Tim for over 20 years, and have yet to see him get frustrated or impatient with any client. When I first met Tim, he was mostly known for his world-class impressions. Later he became known as a voice talent who could do great character voices, as well as a huge variety of announcer styles. His longevity in a fickle advertising business is a credit to his talent and professionalism.
Doug Dixon

President, Audio Ruckus

I’ve rarely seen or heard anybody who is as capable as Tim when it comes to creating characters or imitations on the fly. Tim has an amazing sense of timing. I’m not simply referring to his comedic gifts that are so readily apparent. Tim can seemingly hit the most impossible voice-over timings with relative ease and fluidity. Tim’s other rare talent is his ability to ad-lib lines that will have the recording room burst into peals of laughter. The only difficulty is that we’re always trying to find ways to add Tim’s character voice riffs to the radio spot – a dilemma I’m only too happy to oblige
André Bergeron

Engineer/Owner, Babble-On Recording Studios, Inc.

Radio acting is a rare skill, not much in demand. It’s all seat of the pants, hardly any rehearsal, and takes nerves of steel. And tremendous range.
Garrison Keillor

Tim has been at WCCO radio in Minneapolis for twenty-some years, since he was 20 or so, The Good Neighbor to the Great Northwest, the powerhouse station of my youth, and he’s done various announcing shifts there and now is a sort of cultural reporter and reviews movies. A good gig for him. And then for [A Prairie Home Companion] he does dead-on Schwarzenegger and Bush and Julia Child and Bill Clinton and every other impression, acts, can do double-talk French so Gallic that Francophones double over laughing (plus Swedish, German, Russian, Arabic, and very fast Italian).
Garrison Keillor

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