Gary Tiedemann is an American actor, audiobook narrator, and producer. He was born in Los Angeles to a mother from Cuba and a dad from Huntington Beach. He grew up bilingual, spending a lot of his early childhood either at his Cuban grandparents' dental practice or at their house in Hawthorne, where he was only allowed to speak Spanish. Between the Cuban side of the family and his dad's SoCal German/Italian side, he was raised by quite a diverse cast of characters.
As a kid, he loved watching Dodgers games on his great-grandfather's lap. They talked about baseball in Spanish while listening to the game in English. He liked the game and the players of course, but his real hero was Vin Scully, the announcer. He'd always notice the different ways people around him spoke, in both English and Spanish. It made him want to try speaking in different ways, too. As soon as he discovered what a tape recorder was, it became his favorite toy. From an early age, he was constantly recording himself. He made fake commercials, fake talk shows, DJ'd fake radio shows and made his very supportive family to listen to all of it.
His dream was to actually be on the radio, so after graduating from Tulane University with a History degree, his first job after college was as a part-time board-op and morning show producer at WRNO New Orleans, which was a classic rock station at the time. In his two years there, he ended up being on-air talent. He played way too much Led Zeppelin and hawked hot-tubs, cars and jet-skis to the good people of the Greater New Orleans area. Soon after, he moved to Chicago to try his hand in commercial voice-over, improv, sketch comedy and theatre.
In Chicago, he performed in countless improv shows, sketch comedy reviews, and theatrical productions. It is in Chicago where he learned the fundamentals of acting, storytelling, and playing characters authentically.
Offstage, meanwhile, he voiced hundreds commercials, corporate videos, e-learning projects, animation, audio dramas and whatever else people let him do. In 2014, he narrated his first audiobook and never looked back. Since then, he has narrated almost 100 unabridged titles in many genres, including Sci-Fi, History, True Crime, Literature, Horror, Young-Adult, Children's books, and academic Non-Fiction. He takes pride in bringing authenticity to his characters, dialects, Spanish dialogue, and being completely engaged in the story he narrates.
He now lives in Atlanta, Georgia. When ge's not recording, he's wondering if he has time to go camping, sailing, or travel somewere.
