About the Narrators
Jeff Bridges has starred in many of the most beloved films of our time, including The Last Picture Show, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Starman, The Fisher King, Fearless, American Heart, The Big Lebowski, The Contender, Seabiscuit, and True Grit, which earned Bridges the 2011 Academy Award for Best Actor.
Charlayne Woodard is
a film, stage, and television actress, as well as a playwright. She is best known
for her recurring roles as Janice on The
Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Vonda on Roseanne,
and Sister Peg on Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit. She was one of the original cast members in the Tony
Award–winning Broadway musical Ain’t Misbehavin’, and in 2009, starred in a
one-person performance called The Night
Watcher at Primary Stages in New York City.
Dame Helen Lydia Mirren is an award-winning English actor of stage, screen, and television. She began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and is one of the few performers who have achieved the triple crown of acting, having won the movie industry’s Academy Award for Best Actress, Broadway’s Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, and television’s Emmy Award for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the acclaimed series Prime Suspect. She is also an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator.
Kiff VandenHeuvel, voice talent and audiobook narrator, is originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is an alumni of the Second City comedy theater. He is an accomplished improviser and sketch comedy director, and he teaches voice-over, improv, and directing at Second City Hollywood. He has appeared in hundreds of television and radio commercials and is well known in the video game community as the voice of Zachary Hale Comstock in Bioshock: Infinite.
Sissy Spacek is
an Academy Award–winning American actress and singer. She has appeared in a
number of films, including Badlands,
Carrie, and Coal Miner’s Daughter, for which she won an Academy Award for Best
Actress. She
has also received Oscar nominations for her roles in Missing, The River, Crimes of the Heart, and In the Bedroom.