Ike Seamans

Ike Seamans is a retired NBC News correspondent who is now an actor/model/spokesman in TV commercials, films,infomercials, industrials, VOs and print. Based in Miami, he is usually cast as executive, high ranking military officer, government official, grandfather, etc. but he is also proficient with Southern dialects, especially, uneducated "country" characters. The son of a corporate executive, Seamans lived in 16 states by the time he was 14 years old which has helped him immensely in understanding and performing dialects. A graduate of West Virginia University where he was a drama major, he performed in summer stock and regional theater before receiving a scholarship to attend the University of Chicago Law School. He volunteered for the army during Viet Nam and attended the Army's Infantry Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, graduating as a second lieutenant. When he left the army, he became a TV news correspondent in Miami for a local station and freelanced for CBS News. In 1978, he joined NBC News. Seamans retired from NBC News in 2007 after 40 years in front of the camera as a local, national and international news correspondent and bureau chief based in Moscow, Tel Aviv, Rome and Miami where he was NBC's Latin American correspondent. He has covered stories in more than 100 countries and has hosted and written documentaries, appeared in public service announcements and commercials for NBC stations. He's also been a newspaper columnist, travel writer, book reviewer for major newspapers and magazines. He is also an accomplished public speaker, host and MC. Seamans is the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Miami International Press Club and won two Overseas Press Club awards for coverage of the Nicaraguan Civil War and the fall of communism in the Soviet Union.