Nathaniel Dean
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Age Range | 35-40, 40-45, 45-50 |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Skills | Actor |
| Own Studio | Home Studio - with Source connect |
Pick up a stone, hold it in your hand. Squeeze tight and feel the small pleasure given by its rough exterior. Run your bare feet over heavy woollen carpet. Let your fingers travel up and down across the colours of a hand- stitched tapestry.
Each of these examples holds our brain’s attention because imperfections are more interesting. We are drawn closer to see what makes the bumps or crevices or cracks.
Nat Dean’s listenability and his engaging delivery is just like this. He’s not laminex smooth. We are drawn closer to his voice because there’s a little bit of glistening quartz in the stone, an undiscovered colour in the wool and there’s an exciting rise and fall in the hand-stitched stories he narrates.
Nat Dean’s experience covers TV, stage, film and countless elements of voice work. He has been both main attraction and support player. All this work has had his voice working hard. It’s blacksmith hardened and fired to take on roles and rhythms of any script that comes his way. And they certainly have. Advertisers have come to realise men today don’t want to be ‘too smooth’ but an interesting gravel mixture of rough, honest, sensitive and technically connected. That’s why the digital perfection of cameras , cars and compters use Nat because they still want to sound easy to use and ready to be enjoyed in the hands of the less than totally confident.
If you have the words, Nat will bring today’s modern man to your script. It’s his faults that make it flawless.
Actor Bio
Nathaniel Dean graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney) in 1999.
Since then, Dean has appeared in multiple theatre productions, TV & film roles globally. His film credits include Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale and Walking on Water, for which he received the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2002. In 2004 he was nominated for the AFI Award in cult Australian film, Somersault. Dean’s other notable film credits include Candy and The Final Winter.
Included in Nathaniel’s numerous television credits are Anzac Girls, Puberty Blues, Parer’s War, Old School, Bikie Wars, Wild Boys, Underbelly, East West 101, Rain Shadow, All Saints, City Homicide, Killing Time, Satisfaction and Always Greener.
Nathaniel began his theatre career at the Sydney Theatre Company in the iconic play The One Day of The Year. Dean starred as Macbeth in the 2018 production by The Australian Shakespeare Company.
The Effect for the Melbourne Theatre Company, as well as Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire and Gwen in Purgatory at Belvoir to name just a few.
In 2015 performed in “Reflections of Gallipoli “ with the world renowned Australian chamber orchestra winning the Helpmann award for best concert performance.
In 2013 he played the lead role of William Thornhill in the acclaimed production The Secret River, in which he was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Actor for his performance. He reprised this role in two other remounts touring the country including playing in an outdoor performance at the Adelaide Festival. In 2019 the production had its international debut at the Edinburgh International Arts Festival and The National Theatre in London, both receiving rave reviews.
Nathaniel is sought-after professional voice artist working prolifically on national campaigns in Australia and internationally including Canon, Holden, Playstation and Cricket Australia, Dulux to name a few.
He has a production company with projects in the pipeline for both Theatre and Television.
