Rolf Saxon

Rolf Saxon (born July 7th, 1955) is an American actor. He is well known for his voice-over work in video games, movies and TV shows. He is known for his role as William Donloe in Mission: Impossible and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, as well as for his voice-over work in numerous video games, movies and TV shows, including as the narrator for the American dub of the BBC children's series Teletubbies. Rolf Saxon was born at Fort Belvoir in Alexandria, Virginia on 7 July 1955. He has worked with the American Conservatory Theater, Cal Shakes, Berkeley Mime Troupe, and Omphalos Street Theatre Company. After training as an actor, Saxon immediately began appearing on the stage and on television; he made his film debut as Dick Tipton in a BBC adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980). Initially known as a television actor, he appeared as attorney Hudson J. Talbot III in the ITV drama Capital City (1989–1990). Saxon is best known for his role of CIA analyst William Donloe in Mission: Impossible (1996), a role he would later reprise in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025). He has appeared in films such as Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Saving Private Ryan (1998), the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot (1993), and video games the Broken Sword series (1996–2013) and The Witcher (2007) which have received several awards and nominations. Saxon has also appeared as the American narrator of the iconic British children's series Teletubbies (1997–2001) Upon graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Saxon was awarded the Gold Medal. While performing with the Omphalos Street Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Festival, he was nominated for the Fringe First Award. Critics praised Saxon's performance as Victor Franz in The Price play, earning him the Best Actor in A Leading Role Award at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Rolf Saxon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.