Emma Clarke

Emma Clarke (born 1971) is a writer of comedy and drama scripts and an award-winning voice-over artist, best known as the voice of the automated messages on the Bakerloo, Central and District lines of the London Underground. Most of her voice-over work have also been used in television commercials and radio imaging outside the United Kingdom, notably in the Netherlands, Australia and the United States.

Born and raised in Sale, Greater Manchester, she started a theatre company aged 17 which specialised in business training for businesses and services organisations in both the public and private sector. On graduation she started working for BBC Light Entertainment, writing, reading and performing poetry, prose and drama. Featured mainly on BBC Radio 4, every play or sit-com written for radio has been featured on Radio 4's Pick of the Week.

After her father spotted an advert looking for voice over artists in the Sale and Altrincham Messenger, after initially failing her first interview she studied the art for two years before gaining her first paid work.