"Andrew Jack" is a leading dialect coach who has worked on over 80 major motion pictures since 1982. He has worked with over 200 well known actors including Robert Downey Jr (in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin (film)/Chaplin, Michael Hoffman (American director)/Michael Hoffman's Restoration (1995 film)/Restoration and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)/Sherlock Holmes), Pierce Brosnan (in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day), Cate Blanchett and Viggo Mortensen. As supervising dialect coach for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy/The Lord of the Rings he created the Middle-earth accents and taught them, along with Elvish and Black Speech, to the entire cast of the trilogy. He designed and taught the accents for the Greeks and Trojan language/Trojans in Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy (film)/Troy. He taught Evan Davis to speak with a Nottinghamshire twang. He is well known for helping non-British actors to be more intelligible to the audience.

Andrew was married to Dialogue/Dialect Coach Paula Jack between 2000 and 2013.

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I went to Bali for two months and met my wife, and that's how the story started... We had a very simple beginning, selling art on the street.

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It's hard no matter where you are in the world, it's always a bit of a battle, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

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I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

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It was a good process, though the demographics seemed a little skewed.

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Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.

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