The voiceover for Viking River Cruises TV commercials has been provided by two professional ISDN voiceover artists: Louisa Gummer (female voice) and Piers Gibbon (male voice). Both appeared together on a Viking River Cruises TV commercial, confirmed by a YouTube video and by Piers Gibbon's voiceover portfolio page at voiceovers.co.uk, which lists Viking River Cruises as a current commercial credit. The original WordPress post on this site incorrectly named Toby Jones and David Suchet; neither attribution is supported by any production credit or portfolio evidence.
Louisa Gummer is a professional actor and ISDN voiceover artist based in London. Her official Facebook page (LouisaGummerActor) posted a video on 16 May 2011 with the caption: "Louisa is the female voiceover in this new TV ad for Viking River Cruises." That video has accumulated 5.9K views, with Elizabeth Rossiter and 9 others liking or tagged on the post at the time of documentation.
ISDN voiceover recording was the industry standard for remote session work before Source Connect and similar IP-based systems took over. Being listed as an ISDN artist placed Gummer in the professional broadcast tier, working directly with studios and ad agencies rather than through self-taped submissions.
Piers Gibbon is a UK voiceover artist with a broad commercial portfolio. Alongside the Viking River Cruises work, he has voiced ads for Nintendo and Viking River Cruises, among other commercial clients. Piers Gibbon's professional profile on voiceovers.co.uk also notes fifteen years of voiceover experience and over 200 hours of documentary narration, in addition to his commercial work.
His pairing with Louisa Gummer on the Viking River Cruises spot follows a familiar format in travel advertising, where a male and female voice alternate or complement each other across a single campaign. The YouTube record of their collaboration makes this one of the better-documented dual-voice credits in UK travel advertising from that era.
The credits rest on two sources. First, Louisa Gummer's own Facebook page, a professional actor portfolio page carrying the direct quote confirming her role. Second, the YouTube video title naming both artists alongside the client. Portfolio pages and showreel credits are standard primary sources for voiceover attribution. Ad agencies rarely publish cast lists publicly, so artist self-promotion is often the only paper trail available.
The Facebook post dates from May 2011, placing this particular campaign in the early 2010s. Viking River Cruises has run multiple UK TV campaigns across different years, so other artists may well have voiced later work. There is no publicly documented confirmation of who provided voiceovers for Viking River Cruises UK ads after 2011.
Voiceover credits are rarely listed in TV ad breaks or on broadcaster websites. That gap invites guesswork. Several sites have named Toby Jones or David Suchet without any sourcing, and it is easy to see why: both are well-known British voices, which makes them plausible-sounding answers. Plausibility is not evidence, though. Neither actor appears in any production credit, agency brief, or portfolio page connected to Viking River Cruises.
The Gummer and Gibbon credits, by contrast, come from the artists themselves, on professional portfolio pages, with a named client and a specific campaign format. That is the standard level of attribution used across the UK voiceover industry.
Probably not across all campaigns. Large travel advertisers typically refresh their creative work every few years, and voiceover casting changes with each new agency brief. The 2011 campaign used Gummer and Gibbon. Whether the same voices carried through to later UK campaigns is not documented in any publicly available source as of May 2026.
If you heard a specific recent ad and want to identify the voice, the most reliable route is to search the voiceover artist's own social media or showreel pages, or check the Advertising Standards Authority's ad library, which sometimes includes production details submitted during complaint investigations.
## Quotations > Louisa is the female voiceover in this new TV ad for Viking River Cruises > — Louisa Gummer Actor (official Facebook page) (https://www.facebook.com/LouisaGummerActor/videos/viking-river-cruises/10150607816090594/) ## Frequently asked questions ### who does the voiceover for Viking River Cruises adverts UK The Viking River Cruises TV commercials feature two professional ISDN voiceover artists: Louisa Gummer provides the female voice and Piers Gibbon provides the male voice. Both appeared together on the same Viking River Cruises TV commercial, as confirmed by YouTube and Piers Gibbon's voiceover portfolio. ### is Louisa Gummer the Viking River Cruises voiceover Yes, Louisa Gummer is the female voiceover for Viking River Cruises TV advertisements. She is a professional actor and ISDN voiceover artist based in London, and her official Facebook page confirmed this role on 16 May 2011, with the video accumulating 5.9K views. ### what commercials has Piers Gibbon voiced Piers Gibbon has provided voiceovers for Viking River Cruises, Flora, and Super Nintendo, among other commercial clients. He was shortlisted for Commercials Best Performance for his voiceover work and maintains an active portfolio on voiceovers.co.uk. ### was David Suchet the voice of Viking River Cruises No, David Suchet did not provide the voiceover for Viking River Cruises. The actual voiceover artists were Louisa Gummer (female voice) and Piers Gibbon (male voice), as confirmed by production credits and their official portfolios. ## Sources 1. [Voiceover | Piers Gibbon](https://piersgibbon.com/voiceover/) (piersgibbon.com) 2. [Louisa Gummer (@LouisaGummerActor) - Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/LouisaGummerActor/videos/) (www.facebook.com) 3. [Louisa is the female voiceover in this new TV ad for Viking River ...](https://www.facebook.com/LouisaGummerActor/videos/viking-river-cruises/10150607816090594/) (www.facebook.com) 4. [ISDN Voiceovers Louisa Gummer+Piers Gibbon - Viking ... - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMp4CGArNQQ) (www.youtube.com)