Vanessa Poole
Vanessa Poole
Actress & Voiceover Artist
Member of Teaterförbundet/ the Swedish Union for Performing Arts & Film
Member of Spotlight UK
Vanessa Poole. Playing age 42 to 50.
British national/ Swedish passport, native English speaker BBC English/RP
Good lead, character actress. Good at taking direction. Flexible, fast, with excellent comic timing and a broad range of interpretation, clear voice. Have tackled a wide range of roles, from drama, physical theatre, panto, farce, to contemporary, Shakespearean roles & restoration comedy. Background in dance. Successful voiceover artist.
Founding member of DTRH Copenhagen, https://www.houseofinternationaltheatre.dk/,
Founding and board member of Playmate theatre company, Malmö. https://playmatetheatremalmo.co/
Vanessa works in Copenhagen, Denmark and in Malmö, Southern Sweden where she is based. She also teaches English and drama at college level.
Vanessa started performing in English radio plays and recording for schools when she was 8 in Malta, took acting and dance lessons, and has over 30 years experience of acting in English, on stage, some film work, voiceovers and recording for advertising, corporate film and on radio.
Vanessa is a member of Fackförbundet Scen & Film/ the Swedish Union for Performing Arts & Film.
Native language: British English RP. Fluent Swedish. Good Italian.
Good ear for most and a variety of native English accents : US, mid-Atlantic, Irish, Scottish, Australian ect.
Current role :
Stage
1) Fores(t)empest by Mariana Araoz. Female lead Miranda. Trans Mission Research Sverige/Collectif Masque France 2023. Skillinge Teater/Lund Dir M. Araoz
2) HAP by John Foster. Joint female lead Hap. A world premier, English Theatre of Hamburg/ HIT Int Theatre Arts . Dir: Paul Glaser.
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Television
Max’s Movie. Sara, Max's mother. Produced for Swedish television. Way Creative for UR, SVT. (2013/2014)
Web series
Have Nice Stay, female lead. Produced for Michael Jus Buus with Rasmus Flensburg. SEries & Shorts. Copenhagen (2017)
Infomercial
Telligence 5: Ascom medical informercial/ comercia. Female lead. Pop Hunters Sweden/ Germany, (2017)
Commercial
Ikea First Line of Defence Assurance. Female lead. Global. Symbal. Malmö. (2018)
Computer game voiceovers
Rain of Reflections. Multiple voices. Lionbite Games. Stockholm (20018)
Zelenhgorm: Episode 1, Land of the blue Moon (2002)
Live streaming /RPG on Twitch
Commander Vex in Starfinder campaign "Free Zach" . Dir: Markku Lorentz. A Pengu Studios independent, homebrew production, Lund, Sweden. (2021)
Voiceover Educational material
Female narration & characters for online school material teaching and lessons. Binogi. Stockholm (2019)
UNESCO documentary voiceovers. Ongoing. FilmArt. Dir Peter Nordqvist
Recent Theatre Roles: Lead female: in Scandinavia
Fores(t)empest by Mariana Araoz. Female lead Miranda. Trans Mission Research Sverige/Collectif Masque France 2023. Skillinge Teater/Lund Dir M. Araoz
Vodka Talks by Arne Nielsen. Joint female lead Freya. Teatret ved Sorte Hest, 2023 Copenhagen. Dir. Lars Junggren
Vodka Talks by Arne Nielsen. Joint female lead Freya. HIT INTERNATIONAL THEATRE ARTS 2022 Malmö Dir. Lars Junggren
Sunday in Sodom by Jordan Tannahill. Female lead Edith. Playmate Theatre Malmö 2022. Dir. Matthew Short
HAP by John Foster. Female lead Hap. HIT INTERNATIONAL THEATRE ARTS 2021. Dir. Paul Glaser (English Theatre of Hamburg)
Sylvia by A R Gurney. Female lead Kate. Playmate Theatre Malmö Oct 2020. Dir: Joseph Sherlock.
The Goat or Who is Sylvia? Lead female Stevie. Playmate Theatre Malmö. Directed by Boel Marie Larsson. (Malmö /Copenhagen May 2019)
Quality Street A Night at the Theatre. Lead female. Playmate Theatre Malmö. Directed by Jeremy Thomas-Poulsen (September 2018)
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Lead Sonia. Down the Rabbithole Theatre ,Copenhagen. Dir: Jeremy Thomas-Poulsen.( Feb/March 2018)
Lettice and Lovage. Joint female lead Lotte Schoen. Playmate Theatre, Malmö. Director: Robin Gott (January 2018)
Lovers, Authors & other Strangers. Joint female lead. HIT House of International Theatre. Copenhagen. (May/June 2017) Dir: Jeremy Thomas
Talking Heads. Female lead Lesley. Playmate Theatre, Malmö/ Copenhagen. Director: Annalisa Rossi. (April/ May 2017)
Venus in Fur. Vanda. Down the Rabbithole Theatre , Copenhagen. Dir: Jeremy Thomas-Poulsen. HIT. ( February 2017 /September 2017 Malmö)
Det Kolde Bord: 48 hour chaos theatre project. HIT- House of International Theatre, Copenhagen. Director Lars Ljungreen (January 2017)
Elsie & Norm's MacBeth. Elsie. www.rabbithole.dk. Down the Rabbithole Theatre , Copenhagen, Jersey, Roskilde. ( May /June 2016)
A Chip in the Sugarbowl adapted from Talking Heads by Alan Bennet. Lesley. Core/ Playmate Productions. Malmö. (April 2016)
Pygmalian. Mrs. Pearce / Mrs. Higgins. Jeremy Thomas-Poulsen. Krudttönden ( 2015)
The Shawl. Miss A. Etzel Cardena. Lund & Kirsebergsteatern, Malmö, ITM( 2015)
The Fast Show: a standup review. Krudttönden Cphgn (2014)
The Dining Room. Woman 1. Jeremy Thomas-Poulsen. Krudttönden Cphgn (2014)
Far Away. Harper. Etzel Cardena. ITM, Malmö & Krudttönden ( 2014)
The City. Jenny. Barry McKenna. www.whynottheatre.dk (May 2013)
The Stronger. Madam X. Etzel Cardena.ITM, Malmö & at Krudttönden Cphgn 2013)
Calendar Girls. Ruth. Barry McKenna. Krudttönden Cphgn (2012)
Unveiling. Vera. Etzel Cardena. ITM, Lund/ Malmö (2011)
Voiceovers
Vanessa Poole has recorded more than 50 quality English language voiceover jobs and corporate film appearances for over 30 years for valued and international clients such as Unesco, Ikea, Tetra Pak, Scandline, Candy Crush, Ascom (see video below) and Sandvik. Vanessa has an ear for most native English and non-native accents.
Roles in Malta and at the National Theatre in Malta ( 1991-97)
Vaclav Havel’s Temptation. Maggie.
MacBeth. Second witch.
The Mandrake Root. Lucrezia
School for Scandal. Lady Teazle.
Pack of Lies. Julie Jackson
Brighton Beach Memoirs. Nora.
Beauty & the Beast. Fairy Frou Frou.
Blythe Spirit. Elvira.
Dancing at Lughnasa. Chris.
Much Ado About Nothing. Hero.
Height 5ft 3". Weight 52 kgs. Blond hair. Blue eyes.
Shoe size: 38. Clothes size: Small/M: 36/38.
Training
Vanessa studied acting as a child with Marylu Coppini/ Independent Actress & dialect Coach/ Artistic Director( 1985) & as an adult with Emmy Abrahamsson ( who has an M.A.(RADA) in Text and Performance.) (Malmö 2010.) Voice class with Kay Standen/(graduate of the Birmingham Conservatoire (UK) (Malmö 2010). Alexander Technique workshop with Robin Gott /(Qualified Alexander technique instructor)(Malmö 2011.) Tony Grahn Actor & Acting Technique/ The Actor & Tension Workshop (The Actors Centre (UK) guest lecturer at the Amsterdam Film School) (Malmö 2012.) Petter Barve method acting class (Drama Studio, London/Malmö 2013). Giles Foreman Centre for Acting, London www.gilesforeman.com ( coaching by Dylan Brown, Giles Foreman, Simone Reynolds) ( Aug 2015). Scene Study classes with Laurence Mitchell; Drama Centre London, Royal Central School/ CISPA Copenhagen (September 2015),masterclasses in performance, voice, interpretation with Patsy Rodenburg, Declan Donnelan (2016),Judy Kuhn (2019) (Copenhagen Actors Union), mask work with Mariana Araoz, (Collectif Masque/ National Drama School of Sweden short course/Teaterhögskolan Malmö(2017/2020) , Acting for Camera short course, ( Royal Central School Of Speech & Drama, London) (June 2020.)
