Jeff Burrell is an American actor born in Staten Island, New York. After graduating from New York's High School Performing Arts he went on to get a B.A. in German Studies from Oberlin College. A Fulbright Scholarship brought him to East Berlin's "Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch" in 1990. In 1994 he received an MfA in acting. From1994 - 2000 he was part of the ensemble in the Staatstheater in Halle / Saale, performing, among other roles, the iconic Karl Moor in Friedrich Schiller's "The Robbers." Jeff has been based in Berlin and free-lancing since 2000. In addition to acting in numerous German and international films, Jeff works regularly as a voice-over artist, lending his voice to copious animated films and television series, speaking news for Deutsche Welle TV, as well as working from time to time with orchestras; eg. Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker.