Biography

An expert Dialect & Voice Coach based in Sydney Australia, Jennifer White has coached acclaimed actors including Rose Byrne, Sam Neill, David Wenham, Yvonne Strahovski, Elizabeth Debicki, Rachel Griffiths, Damon Herriman, Tadanobu Asano, Leah Purcell, Wayne Blair and many more.

A graduate of the renowned National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), she has coached professional actors and singers to speak or sing in over 50 dialects and 18 foreign languages for international and Australian film, television, theatre and musical theatre. She also coaches actors to replicate the real voices of historical people and international actors to master English language clarity for film and TV dialogue.

She is known for her work on the award-winning Cate Blanchett Netflix drama series Stateless (2020); the Warner Bros films Mortal Kombat (2021) and Mortal Kombat II (2026); Peter Rabbit (2018) for Sony Pictures; the Helen Reddy biopic I Am Woman (2019); and long running Australian TV series A Place to Call Home (2013).

Jennifer also coaches for the leading theatre companies in Australia. For Sydney Theatre Company (STC), under the Artistic Directorship of Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, she was Dialect Coach on the play Tot Mom directed by Steven Soderbergh and Dialect Consultant on True West directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. She's coached a further 9 plays for the company including the award-winning one woman play RBG: Of Many, One starring Heather Mitchell as 30 characters, including US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from 13 to 87 years and three former US Presidents.

She has coached over 50 plays including by Shakespeare and Arthur Miller, and on major musicals including Opera Australia's international tour of West Side Story, Australian tours of Chicago and Rocky Horror Show, and the Sydney Opera House season of In The Heights.

In 2015, Jennifer was the Foreign Languages Coach of National Anthems for the Netball World Cup held at Sydney Olympic Park. She coached an Australian choir in the correct sung pronunciation of 7 non-English National Anthems to be sung live. The anthems were of Malawi, New Zealand, Samoa, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Wales.

For over 10 years, she was a senior Voice Lecturer and Coach in the Acting and Voice Departments at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) training the next generations of actors on the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) degree and emerging voice coaches on the Masters of Fine Arts (Voice).
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Has coached actors to speak in over 50 varying dialects and 18 foreign languages.

Grandparents Roy Nettheim and Mary Hosking were stage, radio and film actors and foundation members of the Independent Theatre, Sydney.

Cousin of film director Daniel Nettheim (Doctor Who, Broadchurch, The Hunter) and film stills photographer Matt Nettheim (Rabbit Proof Fence, Little Fish, Where The Wild Things Are, The Babadook).

Niece of David Nettheim - a highly successful actor/writer/broadcaster who was a member of London's Old Vic Company with Vivien Leigh, he also worked with Sir Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Leslie Caron, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Plummer, Glenda Jackson and more.