Michael Beattie - Biography

Originally from Toronto, Canada; Award winning Los Angeles based Actor and Voice Actor Michael Beattie has worked for over 25 years in film, television, radio, theatre, audio-book narration, as well as television and feature animation. The voice of the 2nd (Skinny) Marketing Guy in Universal Pictures Dr Seuss's: The Lorax (Summer 2012). The voice of evil Scottish henchcat "Angus MacDoughall" in the Warner Brothers Feature Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore. Mr. Beattie has voiced series regular roles in Animated Series' Conan the Adventurer (Needle ), T-Rex (Buck, Delaney ), King Arthur and the Knights of Justice(Trunk, Gallop, Zeke ) Beverly Hills Teens (Buck Huckster, Wilshire Brentwood ), Care Bears: The Nutcracker Suite (Nutcracker), Robocop (Wheels Wilson), As Told By Ginger (Principal Erickson) among others. His voice credits for video games include a critically acclaimed and award winning performance as Alien Professor Mordin Solus in EA/Bioware's Smash Hit Mass Effect 2*, Blade Wolf (IF Prototype LQ-84i) in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance; Russell in Dishonored, Bilbo Baggins in The Hobitt, Herman Schultz/Shocker in Spiderman: The Movie, and Spiderman 2, Company of Heroes, The Sopranos: Road to Respect, Titan Quest, Pitfall: The Lost Expedition, Neopets , Dragon Age: Origins, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Mr. Beattie performed on-camera in leading roles in 2 Guy Ritchie directed films. "Swept Away" (2002) and "Star" - Part of the BMW Internet film series' The Driver' (2001). He is also the creator of tomsawyeraudio.com a web-based company offering audio-books of unabridged classic children's novels to schools, libraries and the general public.