The voice of the GEICO Gecko is Jake Wood, a British actor known for his role as Max Branning in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He has been the voice of the GEICO Gecko in the United States since the 2010s, bringing the character to life with a distinctive Cockney accent, which is a working-class London accent
. Jake Wood is the longest-running voice actor for the GEICO Gecko, having developed the character through various expressive iterations in the commercials. Prior to Wood, the gecko was voiced by several other actors, including Kelsey Grammer, who gave the gecko a stiffer British accent initially
