Who of these people is the voice behind Martin the GEICO Gecko?

Jake Dylan Wood (born 12 July 1972) is a British actor, best known in his native United Kingdom for playing Max Branning in long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders and in the United States as the voice of the GEICO gecko. He is also well known as Kill Crazy in the eighth series of the sitcom Red Dwarf.

The Government Employees Insurance Company is an American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The company's ads sometimes focus on its reptilian mascot, the Geico Gecko, an anthropomorphic Day Gecko, which is 7'8" tall was created by The Martin Agency, modified in 2005 to a CGI character by Animation Director David Hulin and his team at Framestore. The gecko first appeared on August 29, 1999, during the Screen Actors Guild strike that prevented the use of live actors.

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Bill Coe

The company's ads sometimes focus on its reptilian mascot, The Gecko, an anthropomorphic Day Gecko created by The Martin Agency, modified in 2005 to a CGI character by Animation Director David Hulin and his team at Framestore. The gecko first appeared in 1999, during the Screen Actors Guild strike that prevented the use of live actors.[8] The original commercial features the Gecko, voiced by actor Kelsey Grammer, who climbs onto a microphone on a podium and utters "This is my final plea: I am a gecko, not to be confused with GEICO, which could save you hundreds on car insurance. So, STOP CALLING ME!", before licking his eye. Later "wrong number" ads used Dave Kelly as the voice of the gecko. In the subsequent commercials with Jake Wood[9] (which portray him as a representative of the company), the gecko speaks with a British Cockney accent, because it would be unexpected, according to Martin Agency's Steve Bassett. In 2010s commercials, the gecko's accent is more working-class, perhaps in an effort to further "humanize" him.[10] "As computer animation got better and as we got to know the character better, we did a few things," says Steve Bassett, creative director at The Martin Agency. "We wanted to make him a little more guy-next-door. And he looks a lot more real than he's looked before."[8] Chelsea Clinton interviewed the Geico Gecko in April 2013.[11]

Cheryl Love

Bill Pearn, are questions about countries other than the USA a bit unfair to those in the USA then?

Bank-Robber

Government Employee Insurance Company!!

Karin Johansson

Bill Pearn, non has we in Sweden i think.

mlphilpot

Ci always guess wrong, why do we try

Bill Pearn

Some of these questions are a bit unfair to non-American people. We here in Australia have never heard of this gecko

Chris Braid

Absolutley no idea what GEICO or who Martin is.

Cheryl Perkins

Never heard of any of them or the Gecko.

John E Condo

Who cares

Keith Richard Mears

Eenie, meenie, miney, wrong 😁

George Oliver Prince

Read this on another site

Joseph A. Robitaille

Interesting question and answer..

Anita Clark Morton

scottlarock, Why not??? They force the soap opera stars to do it all the time. If they won't agree, they aren't fired. They just give them extended leave until they DO agree