Kerry Shale

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Kerry Shale is a Canadian actor and writer based in London, England.

Career[]

Film[]

Shale's film appearances include Barbra Streisand's Yentl, Michael Winterbottom's films Genova, Code 46, Jude and Welcome to Sarajevo, the Emmy-winning HBO film RKO 281 as well as 102 Dalmatians, Max, Little Shop of Horrors, Universal Soldier: Regeneration, The Special Relationship, The Jacket, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Final Portrait, Show Dogs, Angel Has Fallen and Wrath of Man.

Television[]

Suspicion, The Sandman, Patrick Melrose, Living The Dream, The Trip To Spain, New Blood, Undercover, New Tricks, Mr. Selfridge. Other television acting work includes Red Dwarf (Series X), Life's Too Short, Doctor Who, The Trip, 10 Days To War, Holby City, Not Going Out, Gideon's Daughter and Love Soup, as well as episodes of Cracker, Joking Apart, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sharpe's Rifles, and The Tomorrow People. He played Mr. Beaver in the BBC's 1988 TV adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Animation[]

Shale has voiced many UK series such as Dennis the Menace, Budgie the Little Helicopter, Captain Star and Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop. He played numerous characters in the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning The Amazing World of Gumball for the Cartoon Network (UK and US). He has also voiced characters in the US version of Roary the Racing Car. Shale was a regular cast member of the long-running Thomas & Friends series in the UK and the US.

Theatre[]

Shale's extensive work for the stage includes six solo shows (five of which he wrote). Other theatre credits include On The Town at the Royal Albert Hall, His Girl Friday at the National Theatre, Aunt Dan and Lemon at the Almeida, Lion In The Streets at Hampstead Theatre, True West for Shared Experience, Henry V at the Bristol Old Vic, The Normal Heart at the Royal Court, The Exonerated at the Riverside Studios and Frost/Nixon at the Donmar Warehouse. Shale also appeared in the Royal Exchange Theatre production of C P Taylor's Good. He co-wrote and appeared in the verbatim play Listen, We're Family and adapted and performed the title role in The 2000 Year Old Man by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner.

Radio[]

Shale has acted in over 200 BBC Radio plays, recorded Bill Bryson's travel books on the radio and as audiobooks, has won a Sony Award as Best UK Radio Actor and a Writers' Guild Award for his radio dramatisation of Dr. Strangelove in which he also played half a dozen roles. From 2002 to 2004, he wrote and presented Kerry Shale's Listy Show, an eclectic music program on Oneword Radio. He has often been the reader for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.

Writing[]

In addition to writing five one-man stage plays and a number of radio adaptations, Shale has written columns, reviews and sketches for BBC Radio, articles for The Guardian and The Word and a BAFTA-nominated video game Dog's Life. His play The Prince of West End Lane was given a staged reading at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. His Radio 4 comedy-drama The Kubrick Test was broadcast in 2020.^[1]

Video games[]

Shale has voiced hundreds of video games. According to The Guinness Book of World Records - Gamers' Edition, Shale has provided more voices for a single video game (Dog's Life) than any other actor. He also provide the voice of Carl Ingram in the Hitman trilogy.

Narration[]

He has narrated many television documentaries for the US and UK. Shale's many audio books include the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child as well as Life of Pi (Reader of the Year, APA Awards), Slumdog Millionaire (Audie Award Winner, Best Male Reader), and The White Tiger, winner of the Man Booker prize.

Other work[]

In 2005, he began appearing on the panel of BBC programmes such as Newsnight Review, The Review Show and Radio 4's Saturday Review. He was one of the organizers (and MC) of the monthly London story-telling evening, True Stories Told Live. He was a member of the comedy Improv group People People.

Personal life[]

Shale is married to Suzanne Shale, a former Oxford University law don, who now works as a specialist in medical and policing ethics.

Filmography[]

Film[]

Television[]

Video games[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Kerry Shale at IMDb