Jonathan Booth is the voice over artist behind Jax McCleary, the host of Galactic Tour in Star Citizen.[1]
Work at CIG
His voice as Jax McCleary was first heard 2014 on the one off commercial Galactic Gear Reviews the M50.[2] This was just voice over, since in 2014 CIG hadn't started to do performance capture yet. When CIG created the Intergalactic Aerospace Expo in 2016, they brought Jax back, and this time Jonathan Booth did performance capture for his character. In 2019, Jax changed from Galactic Tour to Whitley's Guide, which was assisted by the addition of a marketing cinematics team.[1]
Other works
His first job was at Radio 201, doing a two hour classical music program, about which he knew absolutely nothing.[3]
He then became a radio DJ for two years for Southern Sound radio in Brighton UK. He wanted to branch out and do more, so he started to write and voice radio commercials.[1]
Since then he performed in over 30 000 commercials, equaling more than 2000 hours of TV, with his voice having been heard by an estimated 2 Billion people around the world. His voice can be heard on BBC continuity, announcing the channels shows, he can be heard on documentaries including for National Geographic, audio books and more.[4][1]
He voiced General Bristol in the video game Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge.[5] He can also be heard in Lords of the Realm III.[6]
Early Life
As a kid age 8 to 10 or so he would go around his house doing TV announcements, "Tonight a 9.25 on BBC One", and he thought he would really like to do that, the announcing stuff, not thinking he would eventually get to do those announcements on the BBC, albeit a few months before he started, the BBC extended the news to 9.30, so he only got to say "Tonight at 9.25 on BBC Two" and "Tonight at 9.30 on BBC One".[3]
He did Hospital Radio Lion in Guildford, aged 16-17 in May 1979.[3]
He went to the National Broadcasting School.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Citizen: The IAE Show Episode 4, Star Citizen, Youtube, 1 december 2024
- ↑ Star Citizen - Galactic Gear Reviews the Origin M50, Star Citizen, Youtube, 12 sept. 2014
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Here's one we made earlier, The Home Service podcast, Spotify, May 21 2020
- ↑ JB Intro Video, Jonathan Booth, Youtube, 30 may 2019
- ↑ Jonathan Booth, imdb
- ↑ Jonathan Booth, mobygames