Colchester lawyer becomes voice actor on Netflix children's show

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 31 Oct, 17:40 · Archive

Emily McGonagle, 42, left her law career in 2019 to become a professional voice actor.

Emily McGonagle, 42, from Colchester, left her job as a London lawyer in 2019 to pursue a career in voice acting, despite having no previous acting experience. She says she is 'never too old to learn a new skill'. Motherhood proved the catalyst. On maternity leave, she was reluctant to return to the stress and commute of legal practice. She saw the transition as an opportunity to work more flexibly whilst pursuing something she had always been interested in.

EmcGonagle equipped a home studio with professional audio equipment and spent months auditioning for work. Within a few months she secured her first major client: Google completed a corporate voice-over job. Since then, she has provided voice work for a Game of Thrones video game and the Netflix children's series Spike, which launched earlier this month. She said that booking Google made her confident she could succeed in the profession: 'At that point, I thought I could be good at this job.'

How it is being reported

• Colchester mum leaves law career to become voice actor on Netflix hit children's showA Colchester mum says you are “never too old to learn a new skill” after leaving her job as a lawyer to become a voice actor.Colchester Gazette · 31 Oct, 17:00
• Colchester mum leaves law career to become voice actor on Netflix hit children's showA Colchester mum says you are “never too old to learn a new skill” after leaving her job as a lawyer to become a voice actor.Echo (Basildon) · 31 Oct, 17:00

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