LATEST
- Narrated The Memory of Animals by Costa Award Winning author Claire Fuller.
- Twelfth Night for BBC Radio 4 with Toby Jones, David Troughton and Giles Terera.
- Genevieve played Marilyn Monroe in reading at The National Theatre directed by Sir Trevor Nunn. New play by Torben Betts. With Janie Dee.
- Narrated Cursed Bread (out 2nd March) from the Booker Prize-nominated author Sophie Mackintosh.
- Winner of the AudioFile award for narration of Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait.
- Shooting wrap on film Strictly Confidential, directed & written by Damian Hurley.
- BBC R4 Book at Bedtime, voicing 8 year old Canadian girl, Clara, in Mary Lawson’s A Town Called Solace.
- Woman’s Hour reading of the letters of Edith Thompson who was hanged in 1923.
- Drama on BBC R3: W.H Auden The Age of Anxiety.
- Spectator book review of true-con memoir, Duplicity, published.
- Performance at The Criterion, of The Dame and the Showgirl, playing Marilyn Monroe opposite Dame Harriet Walter as Edith Sitwell. New play by Simon Berry.
- Spectator book review of neo-gothic Strega, published.
- Singing as Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds Concert: Stand by for Action:
Singing as Lady Penelope at Birmingham Symphony Hall, 2022
Genevieve and Harriet Walter at The Criterion, 2022
ABOUT
Genevieve Gaunt is a British actress; half Scottish, half Dutch and raised in London.
Film includes Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Mercy, Dusty and Me and The Face of an Angel.
Television includes The Royals, Knightfall, The Last Dragonslayer, and The Cuckoo’s Calling.
Theatre credits include the lead in Ghosts of the Titanic (Park Theatre, Lyric Theatre Belfast), Monogamy (Park Theatre), French Without Tears (Orange Tree) and Sondheim’s Assassins (Edinburgh Fringe).
Her work for BBC Radio 4 includes The Age of Anxiety, Macbeth, The Painted Hall, The USA Trilogy and The Magic Mountain.
She has narrated award-winning audiobooks including The Discomfort of Evening, Code Name Bananas and Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait for which she won the Earphones Award. Alongside Doctor Who audiodramas, she voices Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds with Jon Culshaw as Parker.
Genevieve sang as Lady Penelope at Birmingham Symphony Hall with full orchestra (see video) the original 60s song ‘Parker, Well Done’ and wrote the 2nd half of the lyrics for the concert.
Genevieve read English at Cambridge and graduated with a Double First, writes book reviews for The Spectator and co-curated the inaugural Braemar Literary Festival with HM Queen Consort’s The Royal Reading Room.
Her podcast The Cupid Couch was listed by The Radio Times in their ‘34 Best Podcasts of 2021’.
Genevieve Gaunt’s captivating performance illuminates the suspenseful tale like gold leaf on a beautiful manuscript. She reads O’Farrell’s world-building descriptions of court and countryside with seductive enunciation and pacing.
WINNER of AudioFile ©Earphones Award
AUDIODRAMAS & VIDEO GAMES
Featured Clips
Thunderbirds (South American), The Magic Mountain (French, The Waringham Chronicles (Lancashire), Soft Voice (Essex), Red Planets (Russian), Pretty Vacant (Azerbaijan-American), Brains is Dead (Brooklyn), Medea by Euripides (Yorkshire).
Video Game: US Teenage Girl, US Boy
FULL CREDITS
- SOFT VOICE, Georgie, Hairdresser (Essex)
- ASK ARIZONA, Elizabeth (10 year old)
- THE WARINGHAM CHRONICLES, Blanche
- MEDEA by Euripides , Nurse (Scottish)
- AJAX by Sophocles, Goddess Athena
- THUNDERBIRDS: Terror from the Stars, Lady Penelope, Grandma Tracy
- THUNDERBIRDS: Operation Asteroids, Lady Penelope
- THUNDERBIRDS: Peril in Peru, Lady Penelope
- THUNDERBIRDS: The Space Mirror, Lady Penelope, Soltan (French)
- THUNDERBIRDS: The Vanishing Ray, Lady Penelope
- THUNDERBIRDS: Brains is Dead, Lady Penelope, Grandma Tracy, Miss Wilshaw (Brooklyn)
- THUNDERBIRDS: Blazing Danger, Lady Penelope, Samantha (Canadian)
- DOCTOR WHO: The House of Masks, Sicura
- DOCTOR WHO: The Silent City, Jessica Harker, Gem (Cockney)
- DOCTOR WHO: Warlock’s Cross, Corporal Linda Maxwell (Northern)
- DOCTOR WHO: The Helliax Rift, Corporal Linda Maxwell (Northern)
- DOCTOR WHO: Red Planets, Anna, Fobos Commander (Russian)
- THE PRISONER, Number 43 (Bulgarian)
- FIREBALL XL5, Dr Venus (Swiss)
- THE HUMAN FRONTIER Commander Daisy Bailey
- FIRST ACTION BUREAU Agent Nero Jones
Genevieve Gaunt and Jon Culshaw as Lady Penelope and Parker in THUNDERBIRDS: THE VANISHING RAY (2022)
COMMERICIALS
Previous clients include:
SQUARESPACE, RANGE ROVER, OPTREX, PAMPERS, SAMSUNG, KNIT & STITCH, WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, DHL, SCOTT LOGIC
