Tom Fairfoot is a British–South African actor, award-winning voice artist, singer, and highly versatile audiobook narrator. With more than 30 years of professional experience, he has voiced hundreds of campaigns for major global brands, earning Gold and Silver Cannes Lions as well as multiple South African honours, including the Loeries and Promax awards. His extensive voice work includes numerous documentaries, many years as M-Net’s main announcer, and serving as the international voice of the National Geographic Channel. He has also performed multiple characters in two international children’s comedy animations and continues to work for Amazon Audible.
He has taught corporate and private workshops in improvisation, voice, and acting for over three decades. Trained at the Webber Douglas Academy and Goldsmiths, University of London, he has worked widely across the UK, South Africa, and international markets. In the UK, he is well known for his portrayal of Eddie in the award-winning musical Blood Brothers on the first UK national tour and in London’s West End, performing alongside David Cassidy, Helen Reddy.
In South Africa, Tom played Detective Gavin Archer in ETV’s Gold Diggers and has appeared in Scandal, Isidingo, 7de Laan, and numerous other prime-time dramas. Internationally, he featured in the Dozens of International feature Films recently played the lead in the action feature Lost Horizon, now streaming globally.
His stage credits include major roles in Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Hamlet, as well as acclaimed South African productions such as Stones in His Pockets and Harold Pinter’s Betrayal at Sandton’s Theatre on the Square.
