Ellen McLain

Ellen McLain

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Name = Ellen McLain


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Ellen McLain is an opera singer and actress from Nashville, Tennessee, USA. McLain provides voices for many characters in several video games from Valve. Among them are GLaDOS, the artificial intelligence antagonist in "Portal" (for which she won an AIAS Interactive Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Performance), the announcer in "Team Fortress 2", and the voice of the Combine Overwatch for the "Half-Life 2" series. She is the only person to have her voice in all the games in "The Orange Box".

McLain also sang the ending credits song to "Portal", titled "Still Alive", written by Jonathan Coulton.

She is married to John Patrick Lowrie, a fellow voice actor.

External links

* [http://www.northwestartists.org/em.htm McLain's profile at Northwest Artists]
*imdb name|1655889|Ellen McLain
* [http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/831/831900p1.html An interview with McLain from Oct 31, 2007]


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