John Rafter Lee

John Rafter Lee is an English actor, narrator, playwright and producer.

Career
Lee has narrated hundreds of audiobooks. "His trademark rich, smooth voice with its hint of a growl turns the word into a seduction", according to AudioFile. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009.

In film, he portrayed the mysterious Trevor Goodchild in Peter Chung's Æon Flux. Other voice credits include Meier Link in both Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and Vampire Hunter D, Pavlo Zaitsev in episode 16 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Jason Wynn in HBO's Spawn animated series, and Aristotle in Reign: The Conqueror. John also had a role as a voice actor playing Cid Bunansa in the video game Final Fantasy XII.

Lee was also the producer and screenwriter for the 2001 film Breathing Hard, in which he played the character John Duggan. His Æon Flux co-star Denise Poirier plays his wife Carol.

He has written the plays Blood and Milk, Hitler's Head, Passchendaele, Clean Souls and Frankincense. He has adapted into English Schiller's Don Carlos, Racine's Britannicus and Grabbe's Jest, Satire, Irony and Deeper Significance. Passchendaele received its first production at the New York Fringe Festival in August 2010.

His latest film, which he wrote and co-produced, is Forfeit, which received its premier at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. He is currently writing a film to be shot in his hometown, Birmingham, England.

Anime

 * Fist of the North Star (1984-1987) - Additional Voices
 * Trigun (1998) - Morgan (ep. 14)
 * Reign: The Conqueror (1999) - Aristotle (eps. 1-4)
 * Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002-2003) - Pavlo Zaitsev (ep. 16), Guard (ep. 17) , Kusunoki (ep. 26)
 * Ninja Scroll: The Series (2003) - Renya Yagyu

OVAs & Specials

 * Tenchi Muyo! II (1994) - Azusa Masaki Jurai
 * El-Hazard: The Alternative World (1998) - Additional Voices

Anime Films

 * Princess Mononoke (1997) - Additional Voices
 * Alexander: The Movie (2000) - Aristotle
 * Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) - Meier Link