Christian Jull | Versatile Idea Oy

About Me

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I am an English-language theatre, film and voice-over artist with almost 30 years experience both in the UK and Helsinki. My particular fortés are comic and character acting.

Resume

90Kg	Weight	\|	Height	185cm
blue/grey	Eyes	\|	Hair	brown
tenor	Vocal	\|	DOB	4/11/1967

Please click/prod any of the sections below to expand and view specific experience. Voice and film samples are available below.

Witney Dramatic Society

Little Shop of Horrors (Ashman/Menkin)		Chorus
West Side Story (Laurents/Bernstein)		Tony (lead)
Little Red Riding Hood (Churchill)		Big Bad Wolf (snr)
Mantrap (Reakes)		Trevor (lead)
Fiddler on the Roof (Stein/Bock/Harnick)		Tevye (lead)
Aladdin (Churchill)		Abanazer
The Real Inspector Hound (Stoppard)		Major Magnus Muldoon
Godspell (Schartz/Tabelak)		Jeffrey character
Dick Whittington (Churchill)		Hace, Queen Rat's henchman

Salisbury Drama Association

Seats In All Parts (Albiston/Daltry) Herbert Swain (lead)

History At Large, Salisbury

Atlantic (Fleming)		Franklin D Roosevelt
Determined to Prove a Villain? (Fleming)		Professor Wright
Bear the Fallen Sky (Fleming)		Pilot, RAF Officer, Reporter
Titanic Inquest (Fleming)		Harold Bride
Nelson Remembered (Fleming)		Nelson (lead)
The Whitechapel Enquiry (Fleming)		Counsel

Midnight Theatre Company, Salisbury

Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper Sergeant Thick
Jack the Ripper ('Catch Me If You Can')

Studio Theatre, Salisbury

Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)		Borachio
All My Sons (Miller)		Chris Keller (lead)
Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare)		Master Fenton
Private Lives (Coward)		Victor Prynne
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)		Valentine
Journey's End (Sherriff)		Raleigh
The Tinder Box (Andersen)		The Soldier (lead)
The Boy Friend (Wilson)		Tony (lead)
The Real Inspector Hound (Stoppard)		Major Magnus Muldoon
Arms and the Man (Bernard Shaw)		Bluntschli (lead)
Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare)		Dumain
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)		Lucentio

Musical Theatre Salisbury

Half a Sixpence (Heneker/Cross)		Pearce
Showboat (Kern/Hammerstein/Wodehouse)		Frank Schultz
Anything Goes (Porter/Bolton/Wodehouse)		Lord Evelyn Oakleigh
Cabaret (Kander/Ebb/Masteroff)		Master of Ceremonies
Barnum (Coleman/Stewart/Bramble)		PT Barnum (lead)
The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert/Sullivan)		Frederic (lead)
Guys and Dolls (Loesser/Swerling/Burrows)		Nicely Nicely Johnson
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach/Crémieux/Halévy)		Pluto (2nd lead)
Annie (Strouse/Charnin/Meehan)		Bert Healy/Chorus
HMS Pinafore (Gilbert/Sullivan)		Dick Deadeye
Scrooge (Bricusse)		Nephew Harry
Hello Dolly! (Herman/Stewart)		Cornelius Hackl (2nd lead)
My Fair Lady (Lerner/Loewe)		Professor Higgins (lead)
Titanic - The Musical (Yeston/Stone)		Wallace Hartley
The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert/Sullivan/Papp)		Pirate King (2nd lead)
The King and I (Rodgers/Hammerstein)		The Kralaholme

The Finn-Brit Players, Helsinki

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Hampton)		Azolan
Darwin in Malibu (Whittell)		Thomas Huxley
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)		Pozzo
Bouncers (Godber)		Judd
Single Bride (Chandler)		Jez
The Woman in Black (Mallatratt)		Actor
I Hate Hamlet (Rudnick)		John Barrymore

The Really Small Theatre Company, Helsinki

Greater Tuna (Sears, Williams, Howard)		Arles Struvie and all nine associated characters
Educating Rita (Russell)		Frank
Barrymore (Luce)		Prompter (Frank)
Ingrid (Persson)		Alfred Hitchcock, Petter Lindström, Paavo Turtiainen
The God of Carnage (Reza)		Michel Vallon
Malvolio's Downfall (Shakespeare/Nordlund)		Sir Toby Belch
Private Lives (Coward)		Victor Prynne
The Lover (Pinter)		Richard
Arabian Nights (Ives)		Interpreter
Time Flies (Ives)		David Attenborough
Apologia (Kaye Campbell)		Peter

Theatre Directing

No Sex Please - We're British	Alistair Foot & Anthony Marriott	Witney Dramatic Society
Outside Edge	Richard Harris	Witney Dramatic Society
Nelson Remembered	George Fleming	The Finn-Brit Players
Greater Tuna	Joe Sears, Jaston Williams, and Ed Howard	The Really Small Theatre Company
A Cream Cracker Under the Settee	Alan Bennett	The Really Small Theatre Company
Barrymore	William Luce	The Really Small Theatre Company
April in Paris	John Godber	The Really Small Theatre Company
Malvolio's Downfall	William Shakespeare/Joan Nordlund	The Really Small Theatre Company
Time Flies	David Ives	The Really Small Theatre Company

Theatre Producing

The Really Small Reminiscences comprising: Bed Among the Lentils, A Cream Cracker Under the Settee, Reunion	Alan Bennett, David Mamet	The Really Small Theatre Company
The God of Carnage Malvolio's Downfall	Yasmina Reza William Shakespeare/Joan Nordlund	The Really Small Theatre Company
The Lover	Harold Pinter	The Really Small Theatre Company
Apologia	Alexi Kaye Campbell	The Really Small Theatre Company/Soup Troupe

Film & Television

The Madness of King George	Footman	Channel 4 Films/MGM Director: Nicholas Hytner
The Great Antiques Hunt	Edwardian Gent	BBC Television
The Prince and the Pauper	Townsperson, peer	BBC Television Director: Andrew Morgan
Secrets of the Dead - Sounds from the Stone Age	Stone-age worshipper	Third Eye Media/Channel 4 Director: Charlie Smith
A Gift from Eternity	Oliver Darlington	Back Garden Budget Productions Director: Nick Goodman
Jack, The Last Victim	Sergeant Thick, Jack the Ripper ('Catch Me If You Can')	Grindstone Films/Midnight Theatre Company
The Innovator	CFO (lead)	Indav Oy/Itella Information Director: Jon Sundell
Bad Piggies - Behind the Scenes	Christian Java, EMOFX Supervisor	Rovio Entertainment Director: Taku Suzuki
ABB Drive Registration	'Father'	Indav Oy/ABB Oy
The Wall, Naava	Scientist	Naava/Time Films Oy
Internal business ethics videos	Various	Fiskars Group
The Long Dark (short)	Father	HMCIndie
Internal business ethics videos	Various	Metsä Group

Voice-Over

Wärtsilä, Helsinki		Edita Publishing Oy, Helsinki
Nelonen Media, Helsinki		Suomen kieltenopettajien liitto (SUKOL), Helsinki
Finn Lectura Oy, Helsinki		Skanska, Helsinki
StoryOf Oy, Helsinki		YLE, Helsinki
Remedy Entertainment, Helsinki		St1, Helsinki
Outotec, Espoo		MRP Matila Röhr Productions Oy, Helsinki
Helvar Oy Ab, Espoo		Näkövammaisten Liitto ry, Helsinki
Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre, Vantaa		Helen Oy
'The Guardian Angel', Art Films production AFP Oy (ADR)		Invesdor Nordic
'Bullets', Elisa Viihde (ADR)

Special Skills

Singing (tenor), Some modern dance (jazz and tap), Juggling, Tight-wire, Web-spin.

Wide range of global accents, including many British regional, US regional, Australian.

photos & clips

Portrait Photos

Stage Photos

John Barrymore, I Hate Hamlet [photo: Esa Virtanen]

Sir Toby Belch, Malvolio's Downfall [photo: Salomon Marttila]

Michel Vallon, The God of Carnage [photo: Salomon Marttila]

Film Stills

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Voice Clips

Film Clips

English Voice Coaching

english voice coaching

I offer a coaching service to help non-native English-speaking performers prepare for English-language roles. The coaching primarily focusses on reducing the influences of a native accent upon English pronunciation, achieving natural sentence rhythm and intonation, as well as appropriate word stressing in sentences. I coach for British-English.

Achieving natural sounding British accents is a far larger task and requires a prolonged period of learning as well as self-learning. I can give help and advice for this.

Past projects with Aito Media and Art Films have included voice coaching for:
Esa Latva-Äijö, Meri Nenonen, Mikko Nousiainen, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Sara Soulié, and Pamela Tola.

Please contact me directly for further information regarding this service.

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