Elwood Edwards, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Elwood Edwards

American actor

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1949

Place of Birth: New Bern, North Carolina, United States

Profession: actor, voice actor, dub actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Elwood Edwards

  • Elwood Edwards (born November 6, 1949) is an American voice over actor.
  • He is best known as the voice of the Internet service provider America Online, which he first recorded in 1989.
  • His greetings include "Welcome," "You've got mail," "You've got pictures," "You've got voicemail," "File's done." and "Goodbye.", all recorded in his own living room on a cassette deck.
  • In 1989, Edwards's wife overheard online service Q-Link CEO Steve Case describe how he wanted to add a voice to its user interface.
  • In October, Edwards's voice premiered on AOL's new program.
  • The voice is only heard in the American version of the software.
  • In the UK version, a female voice (British actress Joanna Lumley) is heard replacing "Welcome." with "Welcome to AOL." and "You've got mail." with "You have e-mail." Also "File's done." is replaced with "Your files have been transferred." His voice has also appeared in an episode of The Simpsons (where he provided the voice of a virtual doctor, saying "You've got leprosy"), and in advertising for the movie You've Got Mail. He started in radio while in high school.
  • After high school he continued into television, working as a live booth announcer.
  • Despite some on-air work, doing a car commercial, reporting news or sports and even a short stint as a weatherman (once proclaiming to New Bern, North Carolina that "You've got hail."), Edwards focused mainly on off-camera work. Semi-retired, he used to sell personalized .wav files through his website.On the March 4, 2015 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Edwards appeared on screen to read humorous phrases.
  • As of November 2016, Edwards was seen on Instagram and YouTube working as an Uber driver.
  • On Sept.
  • 16, 2019, Edwards and his AOL story were featured on the podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz in an episode entitled "You've Got Mail."

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