Melanie Crawleyshe/her

Versatility, humour and northern grit - an award-winning British actor.

United Kingdom · Sheffield

Native British English (Regional)

Literary fiction Elegant, literary classic British RP

About

Melanie Crawley is a multiple Earphone award-winning and critically acclaimed British voice actor who has performed more than 150 audiobooks.
Melanie narrates with grit, comedy and down-to-earth, no-nonsense honesty across multiple genres but is particularly known for her work with psychological thrillers, romance, literary fiction and memoir. Recent titles include ‘Stolen’ by Deborah Moggach, and ‘The Parallel Path’ by Jenn Ashworth. She is honoured to work with Hachette, Dreamscape, Penguin Random House, Bolinda, Bloomsbury, and many other publishers and direct with authors.

Training: BA (Hons) Drama 2:1
Voice Over Kickstart Voice Over Training
Equity Voice Workshops - regular training in various voice related subjects

Find online: Personal website ↗ · Audible ↗ · Libro.fm ↗ · LinkedIn ↗ · Instagram ↗ · Facebook ↗

Voice and range

Proficient accents

UK RP / Standard British UK Cockney UK Estuary (London / southeast) UK Northern (general) UK Yorkshire UK Scouse / Liverpool UK Birmingham / Midlands Welsh Scottish Irish (Republic) Transatlantic / mid-Atlantic South African French German Italian Russian Scandinavian (general) Victorian English

Voice ages

1 to 12 (child) 13 to 19 (teen) 20 to 39 (young to mid-adult) 40 to 59 (mid-adult) 60 to 79 (senior) 80 to 99 (elder)

Languages

English

Voice presentation

Female / femme-presenting

Heritage / identity

White / European

Selected credits

8 listed · More than 100 narrated

No Place to Hide

by Rebecca Griffiths · 2026 · narrator

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The Hanging of Hettie Gale

by Tess Burnett · 2025 · co_narrator

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The Gold Diggers Daughter

by Riko Radojcic · 2025 · narrator

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You Lied First

by Annabel Kantaria · 2025 · narrator

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The Parallel Path

by Jenn Ashworth · 2025 · narrator

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Freeze

by Chris Priestly · 2024 · narrator

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The Little Bookshop by the Sea

by Eliza J Scott · 2024 · narrator

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The Royal Nanny

by Karen Harper · 2020 · narrator

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Genres

Literary fiction Comedy Fantasy Science fiction Thriller Mystery (general) Cozy mystery Murder mystery Romance (clean) Romance (contemporary) Romance (historical) Biography and memoir

Multi-cast Dual narration