Bettina White

Bettina Weiß (* 1966 in Berlin ) is a German actress and voice actress . She is known as the German voice of Sandra Bullock , Juliette Lewis , Catherine McCormack and Rachel Weisz .

Life

After graduating from high school, she concentrated on her acting training, so she took part in model and personality training, attended Else Bongers' private drama school in Berlin and also took breathing and voice training courses. After a few engagements, Weiß established himself in the field of film dubbing and has been a full-time dubbing actress there since 1989 . She prefers this type of acting as it is hardly in the public interest and she can remain largely anonymous.

As a speaker she was also employed in other areas of activity, for example she can also be heard in advertising, radio and documentaries and has participated in several radio play productions.

Bettina Weiß lives in Berlin.

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Synchronized work

Movies

Since the early 1990s she has lent her voice to numerous well-known actresses. In German-speaking countries, for example, she could be heard in 1991 for Demi Moore in the psycho thriller Tödliche Demokratie , 1992 for Robin Wright in the comedy Toys , 1993 for Moira Kelly in the biographical film about Chaplin as his last wife, in 1994 for Mary-Louise Parker as mother the eleven-year-old star witness in the thriller The Client , 1995 for Izabella Scorupco as Bondgirl in James Bond 007 - Goldeneye , 1996 for Maxine Bahns in the comedy She's the One , 1997 for Amy Brenneman in the action film Daylight and 1999 for Elizabeth Hurley in the comedy EDtv and Leeanna Walsman in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones .

In 2000 she spoke to Joely Richardson in the historical war film The Patriot and Radha Mitchell in the science fiction film Pitch Black , which she also played in 2003 in Not! synchronized. She was heard for Sanaa Lathan and Naomie Harris in the thrillers Out of Time (2004) and Miami Vice (2006) . Bettina Weiß was also used in 2006 for Kate Beckinsale in the comedy Klick and in 2007 for Idina Menzel in the Walt Disney film Verwünscht . In 2015, she spoke to Milla Jovovich in the action thriller Survivor .

Associated actresses

In the German-speaking world, she is probably best known as the voice of Sandra Bullock , who she spoke for the first time in the science fiction film Demolition Man and has been her celebratory voice ever since. Her German colleague Torsten Michaelis also achieved a permanent assignment for Wesley Snipes through the popularity of this film . Since the psychedelic road movie Natural Born Killers (1994) by Oliver Stone , she can mainly be heard on Juliette Lewis . Furthermore, she has been permanently assigned to the British actress Catherine McCormack since she dubbed her for the first time in Braveheart in 1995 .

White has also been used for other well-known actresses. Between 1997 and 2007 she spoke Cate Blanchett , for the first time in Paradise Road (1997), among others also in The Talented Mr. Ripley (2000), The Missing (2004), Babel (Film) (2006), The Good German (2007 ) and Diary of a Scandal (2007). She also lent her voice to Rachel Weisz , for example in The Mummy - Part 1 and Part 2 (1999/2001), About a Boy (2002), The Judgment (2004), Constantine (2005) and in Maybe, Maybe Not ( 2008). For Teri Hatcher she could be heard as far as possible, for example in the films Mississippi Delta - Im Swamp der Rache (1996), Spy Kids (2001), Runaway Jane - Alone Against All (2002) and Coraline (2008)

Series

Bettina Weiß got her first permanent serial role in the soap opera California Clan as Hayley Benson Capwell, played by Stacy Edwards , who was seen on RTL Plus from 1990 to 1992 . As coroner Dr. Natalie Lambert, who was the only one who knew the secret of Nick Knight - The Vampircop , was heard for two years on RTL II from 1994 in the fantasy series of the same name . Her voice is best known as Dr. Susan Lewis from the successful medical series Emergency Room , whose character, played by Sherry Stringfield , appeared from 1994 to 1996, 2001 to 2005 and 2009 and was broadcast on Pro Sieben . This broadcaster was also able to recruit her for comedic roles, for example she spoke her newly married daughter Rachel Blanders in the sitcom Cybill from 1998 to 1999, lent Doon Mackichan her voice in the British comedy series Smack the Pony from 2001 to 2003 and she has been that since 2005 German-speaking audiences are known as the clumsy Susan Mayer, played by Teri Hatcher , in the dramedy series Desperate Housewives .

She is also often cast for leading roles in action and crime series. For Carrie-Anne Moss she could be heard as Lucinda Scott in F / X: The Series (1997-1998), for Brooke Langton as computer specialist Angela Bennett in Das Netz - Todesfalle Internet (2000) and for Nancy Travis as a lecturer in parapsychology Joyce Reardon in the three-part Stephen King television adaptation The House of Doom (2002). However, she is largely known as Det. Lilly Rush, who solves decades of murder in Cold Case (2004-2010) and as Officer Natalia Boa Vista in the crime series CSI: Miami , which has been running on RTL since 2006 .

Radio plays

During the production of the original radio play about Casper - How everything began , released in 1999 by the Karussell label , all of the voice actors for the TV film were again involved, so she again took on the role of Sheila.

In 2010 she took part in various radio play adaptations of the Horror Cabinet series on the “Titania Medien” label , such as Berge des Wahnsinns (44 and 45) by HP Lovecraft , Verhext (47) by Edith Wharton , Die Squaw (48) by Bram Stoker and The White Wolf (49) by Frederick Marryat .

Web links

• Bettina Weiß in the German dubbing file

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Groom : Stars and their voices. Lexicon of voice actors. Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , pp. 260-261.
2. ↑ Bettina Weiss. In: Voicemail.de. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
3. ↑ hoerspielland.de: Radio plays with Bettina Weiß Retrieved on August 23, 2011
4. ↑ titania-medien.de: Bettina Weiß