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Jeff McNeal (born Jeff Ornellas) is an American voice actor, born in Los Angeles, CA and raised in Pasadena, CA. After graduating high school, he appeared on the Gong Show with Chuck Barris in October, 1977 doing celebrity voice speaking and singing impressions.

In 1978 he embarked on a 19-year career as a radio personality for KIDD AM in Monterey, CA, before moving down the California coast to KACY AM, Port Hueneme. In 1979, he started part-time work at KUTE FM, then KIIS FM, both in Los Angeles, before going full time at KUTE FM and KHTZ FM. In September 1980 McNeal left Los Angeles to occupy Afternoon Drive in San Francisco for the NBC owned and operated KYUU FM, where he remained a fixture for six years. Dissatisfied by the changing landscape in radio broadcasting after deregulation, after performing at a few more radio stations in San Diego, McNeal retired from radio in 1997, in order to devote more attention to Jeff McNeal Productions, a voice over business he formed in 1989.

In 2004, McNeal signed a contract with KNBC TV in Los Angeles to be the station news promo voice, which continued through 2013. At the same time, he began voicing numerous movie trailers, but is best known for his trailer voice work on 1997's "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium", Disney's "Beauty And The Beast 3D" in 2013 and Disney's "Frozen" in 2014. He has also lent his voice to various feature film projects including "Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey", "National Treasure", "Our Brand Is Crisis" and "When The Game Stands Tall". He remains a free-lance voice over actor and is the front man for the Temecula, CA classic rock band he formed in 2011 called Mrs. Jones' Revenge, doing singing impressions of over 50 different artists from the rock era spanning the 1960's through the 1980's.