You may have seen my post about the first audiobook I narrated, where I mentioned that my grandmother appears as an ancillary character… but did you know that the connections run so much deeper?
The article: By recording ‘Northeaster’ audiobook, voice actor connects with the Maine grandmother she never knew
I encourage you to check out the article. Here’s an excerpt:
Like her grandmother, Keaton was born and raised in Kentucky. And though on the surface, their lives seem quite different – one, a doctor practicing in a small town in Maine in the 1950s and, the other, a 21st-century video game/TV show voiceover actor in cosmopolitan Los Angeles – Keaton sees a parallel: Both careers require moxie. Her grandmother had the grit and enterprise to become a doctor at a time most American women were constrained to be housewives. Acting, Keaton said, takes a different sort of courage: Performers must cope with erratic incomes and constant auditions, she said, “putting ourselves out there vulnerably on a daily basis.”
Morgan Bailey Keaton 