Who is the voice behind a score of stunning characters?
Jennifer Hale has played more of the sexiest characters on screen than any other actress.
The unsung queen of her niche, Hale has voiced characters in 129 video games. So you could be forgiven for wondering why she sounds familiar.
She started with 1994’s Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness and has dominated the field from then until now-with the upcoming Mass Effect 3, the New Yorker reported.
In between she’s played characters in Bulletstorm, Desperate Housewives (the game), Freelancer, X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, Doom 3,
Hale is so prolific she is almost regarded as a kind of Meryl Streep among video game voice actors, digg reported..
Video-game actors are used to working without context, and at providing varying versions of dialogue at the drop of a hat.
Hales latest project is Mass Effect 3, the sequel to the games that sold more than five million copies. Once again she plays the main character of Commander Shepard
Amazingly it can take 300 hours to record all the voice for a character like this.
Eighty per cent of players select a male Shepard Later they can decide how their Shepherd treats other people.
In his/her interaction with other characters, Shepard can behave with compassion or brutality.
The former TV actress was born in Labrador in 1972, and has both Canadian and American citizenship.
She grew up mainly in the American South and after studying acting at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, appeared on the usual network TV shows,
After two years of this she began to look for better paid work, moving into video-game and commercial voice-over work.
It was an arena entirely dominated by men but Hale cajoled her agent into giving her scripts and ended up getting the part.
