Ellen McLain
Ellen McLain (born December 1, 1952 in Nashville , Tennessee ) is an American actress .
Life
McLain studied music at The North Carolina School of the Arts and The New England Conservatory in Boston , where she earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree with honors.
McLains voice is in many video games from Valve to hear. In Portal and Portal 2 , she lent her voice to the artificial intelligence of the computer GLaDOS , which tries to kill the player in the course of the game, and the small Sentry Turrets , which are a kind of small robots created by GLaDOS, to give the test subject the test chambers harder to make. In Team Fortress 2 , she is the female voice that directs various events such as B. announces the start of the game. In DotA 2 , McLain lends her voice to the characters of the Broodmother and Death Prophet . In Half-Life 2 she speaks a voice that gives the Combine , alien attackers, the same commands over and over again: "Find, seize, destroy". Your voice can therefore be heard in all The Orange Box games .
McLain also sang the song "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton on Portal , which can be heard after GLaDOS was defeated. And her voice can also be heard in the second part as a dubbing voice for GLaDOS and in the song "Want You Gone".
She is married to John Patrick Lowrie , who also lends his voice as a voice actor.
Web links
- Ellen McLain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- McLains profile at Northwest Artists (English)
- An interview with McLain on October 31, 2007
- Still Alive on Youtube
- "Want You Gone" on Youtube (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ellen McLain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McLain, Ellen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nashville , Tennessee |