"I’ve learned to be like Sherlock Holmes, picking up the clues the writer gives you."
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Talking with Kimberly Farr
In June 2025, Kimberly Farr was inducted as a Golden Voice, AudioFile's lifetime achievement honor for audiobook narrators.
How did you get started with narrating?
I’ve been a professional actress since I was 19 years old. And in 2004, I had two young-ish kids, and I didn’t want to be doing theater (nights away from them) or films or TV (long hours on the set). But I didn’t want to give up my acting career completely. A couple of colleagues who I worked with at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., had narrated audiobooks for Recorded Books during the months that the theater was dark, and I thought, well, that looks