Mike Cooper is a British voiceover artist based in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, known for his work on radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 and television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 (primarily in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

).

Cooper was born in Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...

. Originally a local radio presenter, he has worked for the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 (including as a newsreader

Newsreader

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 for the BBC World Service

BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...

), satellite TV channels and corporate clients.

In 2008 Cooper narrated Dinosaur Secrets for The History Channel

The History Channel

History, formerly known as The History Channel, is an American-based international satellite and cable TV channel that broadcasts a variety of reality shows and documentary programs including those of fictional and non-fictional historical content, together with speculation about the future.-...

 (a UK-localised version of the US series Jurassic Fight Club

Jurassic Fight Club

Jurassic Fight Club is a paleontology-based television series on History which premiered in the USA in July 2008.-Summary:Scientists study the battles of prehistoric creatures, such as dinosaurs, before they went extinct. Each episode features a forensic-styled breakdown of a prehistoric battle...

). His other credits include documentaries and series for Bio

The Biography Channel

The Biography Channel is an American digital cable television channel owned by A&E and based on the television series of the same name. A version of the channel also airs on ONO and Telefónica in Spain and on Sky Digital and cable television in the United Kingdom, a version of the channel also...

, Military History, The Crime & Investigation Network and for the National Geographic Channel

National Geographic Channel

National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo, is a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society. Like History and the Discovery Channel, the channel features documentaries with factual...

.

TV credits

• A Killer on Campus (Crime & Investigation Network)
• Black Widow: A Web of Suspicion (Crime & Investigation Network)
• Britain at War (Military History)
• Chevy Chase
  Chevy Chase
  Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor, born into a prominent entertainment industry family. Chase worked a plethora of odd jobs before moving into comedy acting with National Lampoon...
  
   (Bio)
• Diagnosis Unknown (Crime & Investigation Network)
• Dinosaur Secrets (History)
• Family Ties
  Family Ties
  Family Ties is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between young...
  
   (Bio)
• Fishzilla (National Geographic Channel)
• Jamie Lee Curtis
  Jamie Lee Curtis
  Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress and author. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many...
  
   (Bio)
• Jaws
  Jaws (film)
  Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...
  
  : The Inside Story (Bio)
• Jesus: The Man From Nazareth (National Geographic Channel)
• Hell's Angels (Bio)
• Henry Winkler
  Henry Winkler
  Henry Franklin Winkler, OBE is an American actor, director, producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days...
  
   (Bio)
• John Candy
  John Candy
  John Franklin Candy was a Canadian actor and comedian. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of The Second City and its related Second City Television series, and through his appearances in comedy films such as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle...
  
  (Bio)
• Inside: Tut's Treasure Tour (National Geographic Channel)
• Investigative Reports: Girls, Gangs and the Hood (Crime & Investigation Network)
• Investigative Reports: Forensic science on trial (Crime & Investigation Network)
• Megastructures: Air Crane Helicopter (National Geographic Channel)
• Megastructures: Electric Ocean (National Geographic Channel)
• Murder for Hire (Crime & Investigation Network)
• Operation Valkyrie (History)
• Secret Life of Fireworks (National Geographic Channel)
• Seven Signs of the Apocalypse (History)
• Ultimate Africa (National Geographic)
• World's Tallest Trees (National Geographic Channel)

External links

Mike Cooper - Voiceover Artist on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/mikecooperVoiceover

LondonVoiceover on Twitter - http://twitter.com/londonvoiceover