Lorelei King
Born: 1963-03-08 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Known For: Acting
Biography
Lorelei King is a United States-born actress who has been based in the United Kingdom since 1981. She is primarily known for her voice acting, narrating audiobooks and appearing in plays on BBC Radio 4. King spent her childhood moving between Pennsylvania, Arkansas, and California. In 1981, she planned to move to either Paris or Yugoslavia, where her family originated, but after a three-day stopover in London, she decided to stay in Britain King has made numerous television roles, which include drama, comedy and children's shows. Her first appearance was in the drama Murrow (1983), a biography of the American news reporter and political commentator Edward R. Murrow and since then she has had roles in many British shows, such as Series 2 on the Sky One show, Mile High as Fresh! airlines HR boss, Stella Lightfoot, Chef! (as Savanna), Linda Milson in ‘’Rumpole of the Bailey’’ in 1991 and in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as showgirl Vonda Lockhart. As well as this, she has also had parts in films such as Shining Through (1992), Notting Hill (1999), 24 Hours in London (2000) and The House of Mirth (2000), as well lending her voice to radio shows and video games. This includes Dirk Maggs' adaptations of The Adventures of Superman and Batman: Knightfall. She voiced the character of Mary Osakwe in the UFO: Afterlight computer game. More recently, she provided voices to small parts in the video games Mass Effect: Andromeda (2017), Subnautica (2018) and its sequel Subnautica: Below Zero (2021). In 2006, she appeared in an episode of sitcom Not Going Out as a therapist. She has narrated over 400 audiobooks. King also provided the voice of Samus Aran's Power Suit in a 2005 pinball video game, Metroid Prime Pinball. In 2017 she portrayed the voice of MUTHUR, the eponymous spaceship's computer in Alien: Covenant.
Filmography
2021
2017
- Alien: Covenant as Mother (voice)
2013
- Bob the Builder: Hammer Time as Wendy / Mrs. Barbara Bentley / Dot / Vicky / Sophia
- Bob The Builder Animal Adventures as Wendy / Mrs. Potts / Mrs. Broadbent
- Bob the Builder: Build it Big! Playpack
2012
- Bob the Builder: Teamwork Time as Wendy / Roley / Ella
- Chuggington: All Buckled Up! ... (Script Coordinator)
- Bob the Builder: Build It and They Will Come
2011
- Bob the Builder: The Big Dino Dig as Dizzy/Roley/Wendy (voice)
2010
- Chuggington - Badge Quest ... (Writer)
- Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2009
- HIT Favorites: Frosty Friends as Wendy / Mrs. Potts
2008
- Bob the Builder: Race to the Finish as Wendy / Roley (voice)
2007
- Bob the Builder: Scrambler to the Rescue as Wendy / Roley / Dot / Mrs. Bentley / Packer
- HIT Favorites: Winter Wonderland as Wendy / Jenny
- After You've Gone as Faye Tucker
2006
- Not Going Out as Therapist
- Bob the Builder: When Bob Became a Builder as Wendy (US) / Mrs. Potts (US) (voice)
- Bob the Builder: Built to be Wild as Wendy (voice)
- Stan as Lucille
2005
- Bob the Builder: Bob's Big Plan as Wendy (US), Mrs. Potts (US), Bunty Ferguson (US) (voice)
- Broken News as Loren Peterson
- The Robinsons
2003
- Bob the Builder: Christmas With Bob and the Crew as Wendy / Bunty Ferguson / Mrs. Potts / Jenny (voice)
- Bob the Builder: Bob's Friends and Family as Wendy / Dorothy / Florence Mountfitchet / Mrs. Percival (voice)
2002
- Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Caresse
- The Falklands Play as Jeanne Kirkpatrick (US Ambassador to the UN)
2001
- Bob the Builder: Bob's White Christmas as Wendy / Jenny / Mrs. Percival / Mrs. Potts
2000
- Monarch of the Glen as Bonnie MacDonald
- 24 Hours in London as Lloyd
- The House of Mirth as Mrs. Hatch
- Jam as American Porn Actress
1999
- Bob the Builder as Wendy / Roley / Sumsy / Packer (voice)
- Notting Hill as Anna's Publicist
1998
- Cold Feet
- The Very Thought of You as US Ground Stewardess
1997
- Jonathan Creek as Justine Bailey
- The Saint as TV Reporter
1995
- Intimate with a Stranger as Ellen
- Fantomcat
1993
- Chef as Savannah Concord
- Avenger Penguins
- Thumpkin and the Easter Bunnies
1992
- Shining Through as Leland's New Secretary
1991
- Coping with Cupid as Captain Trulove
1989
- Birds of a Feather as L.A. Jailer
1983
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Lecturer