Barbara Rosenblat


Barbara Rosenblat is a British actress. She is best known as a prolific narrator of audiobooks, for which AudioFile named her a Golden Voice. She has also appeared on screen such as in the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black as the character Miss Rosa.
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Early life

Rosenblat was born in London, England and was raised in New York City in a Jewish family. She attended a Hebrew school as a child.

Career

After returning to London for a family wedding, Rosenblat decided to stay in England. Soon afterwards, she landed a part in a production of Godspell. She continued to work in theatre, as well as various fields of entertainment in the UK such as radio, film and television.
She later returned to the US, and worked at the Library of Congress narrating books for the blind for four years.
On Broadway, she appeared in the musical The Secret Garden and the play Talk Radio.

Awards and honors

AudioFile has named Rosenblat a Golden Voice narrator.

Audiography

Rosenblat has narrated more than 400 audiobooks and has been praised for her range of performance in both British and American English accents. She has also narrated a vast range of books across various genres, from classics such as Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland to the literary fiction of T. C. Boyle or short stories of Kurt Vonnegut to paranormal romance novels by Katie McAllister.
Rosenblat is known for her narrations of well-loved mystery series such as Dorothy Gilman’s Mrs. Pollifax series, Elizabeth Peters‘s Amelia Peabody series, and continues to carry many long-running contemporary crime fiction series including: