Cathleen McCarron


Cathleen McCarron is a film, television, theater and audiobook actor and professional voice coach. She has appeared in a number of movies including Made of Honor and had a recurring part as Molly Anderson on the British television series The Bill. McCarron has developed a devoted following for her audiobook acting. McCarron is “one of Audible’s highest-rated narrators.” And she is widely known for her narration of Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine which is one of the best selling audiobooks of all time. McCarron is included in The Times: Isolation Special: The Best Audiobooks and 31 Unmissable Audiobooks Narrated by Your Favourite Celebrities in Stylist magazine.
McCarron is known for her clarity, range of accents and ability to portray a range of characters in a single book. As Fionnuala Barrett, senior audio editor at HarperColllins explained in Bookseller Stories Behind the Books of the Year,
The story is told in the first person by Eleanor. She is tremendously particular when it comes to her use of language, and so I knew we required a reader with great precision to reflect that. At the same time, the narrator had to be versatile to do justice to the wide cast of characters in the story. Cathleen, with her training as an accent and vocal coach, fit the bill perfectly, and with her background as an actor she was able to balance the humour and the darkness of the story beautifully.
McCarron was born in Edinburgh and now resides in Stratford-on-Avon.

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