Jennifer Hale is a Canadian-born American actress best known for her voice over work
in video games like Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Grandia II, the Mass Effect
trilogy, Diablo III, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, Tales of Symphonia,
the Metroid Prime trilogy, the Metal Gear Solid games, Brütal Legend, Halo 4, BioShock
Infinite and Disney's animated movies.
As a result of her prolific works as a voice actress in video gaming, Guinness World Records
awarded her with a Guinness World Record for being "the most prolific videogame voice actor"
which has been featured in the book Guinness World Records 2013: Gamer's Edition.
Biography Hale was born in Canada to parents from Birmingham,
Alabama.
She grew up in the United States, attending the Alabama School of Fine Arts and then Birmingham-Southern
College in Birmingham.
While in high school, Hale began working as a production assistant.
After graduation, Hale worked as an actress, commuting between Birmingham and Atlanta.
She got her first big break in the 1988 made-for-TV movie A Father's Homecoming.
Later she moved to Hollywood and has been doing voices for video games, animation, commercials,
radio promotions, anime, and movies since 1993.
In 1994 she was cast as Felicia Hardy/Black Cat in Spider-Man, the first in a long line
of Marvel Comics characters she has voiced.
She has also been a guest on several well-known TV shows, such as Charmed, ER, Just Shoot
Me!, among others.
She was sometimes credited as Carren Learning.
She plays Cinderella and Princess Aurora in various Disney projects.
She also voiced several characters in the cartoon series Totally Spies.
She voiced Bastila Shan in the award-winning Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and
returned for a brief appearance in the sequel Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
The Sith Lords.
She later voiced the female version of Jaden Korr in Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.
In the BioWare MMOPRG Star Wars: The Old Republic, Hale voiced the Republic Trooper Female as
well as the recurring NPC Jedi Grand Master Satele Shan.
Hale also voiced Bastila Shan in cameo role during the game's Jedi Consular storyline.
Hale interpreted the voices of Fall-From-Grace and Deionarra in the computer-role-playing-game
Planescape: Torment.
She voiced the female version of Commander Shepard in the video game series Mass Effect,
noted for her nomination for "Best Performance by a Human Female" award at the 2010 Spike
Video Game Awards.
She is also known as the "voice" of Samus Aran in all three games in the Metroid Prime
trilogy, providing grunts and screams as the player moves and takes damage.
Hale is also known for playing several voices in the Metal Gear Solid series.
Hale was also the voice of Jean Grey in Wolverine and the X-Men and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate
of Two Worlds as well as a small role in Swat Kats.
She also voiced British mercenary Jennifer Mui in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.
In 2003, Hale voiced Mrs. Little in the short-lived Stuart Little: The Animated Series.
In 2011, she was the voice of Carol Danvers aka Ms. Marvel on Avengers: Earth's Mightiest
Heroes.
Most recently, Jennifer provided the voice of Leah in Diablo III, and appeared as Rosalind
Lutece in Bioshock Infinite.
Filmography Film
Television Video games
All roles listed are voice roles and for the English versions where applicable.
References
External links Official website
Jennifer Hale at the Internet Movie Database Jennifer Hale at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Jennifer Hale at http:www.voicechasers.com Jennifer Hale on Twitter