Lorelei King

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1963-03-08

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Lorelei King

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.

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Acting History

2021
Elliott from Earth
2017
Alien: Covenant as Mother (voice)
2013
Bob The Builder Animal Adventures as Wendy / Mrs. Potts / Mrs. Broadbent
2013
Bob the Builder: Hammer Time as Wendy / Mrs. Barbara Bentley / Dot / Vicky / Sophia
2013
Bob the Builder: Build it Big! Playpack
2012
Bob the Builder: Teamwork Time as Wendy / Roley / Ella
2012
Bob the Builder: Build It and They Will Come
2011
Bob the Builder: The Big Dino Dig as Dizzy/Roley/Wendy (voice)
2010
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
HIT Favorites: Winter Wonderland as Wendy / Jenny
2007
Bob the Builder: Scrambler to the Rescue as Wendy / Roley / Dot / Mrs. Bentley / Packer
2007
After You've Gone as Faye Tucker
2006
Not Going Out as Therapist
2006
Bob the Builder: Built to be Wild as Wendy (voice)
2006
Stan as Lucille
2006
Bob the Builder: When Bob Became a Builder as Wendy (US) / Mrs. Potts (US) (voice)
2005
Broken News as Loren Peterson
2005
Bob the Builder: Bob's Big Plan as Wendy (US), Mrs. Potts (US), Bunty Ferguson (US) (voice)
2005
The Robinsons
2004
Bob the Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games as Wendy
2003
Bob the Builder: Christmas With Bob and the Crew as Wendy / Bunty Ferguson / Mrs. Potts / Jenny (voice)
2003
Bob the Builder: Bob's Friends and Family as Wendy / Dorothy / Florence Mountfitchet / Mrs. Percival (voice)
2002
The Falklands Play as Jeanne Kirkpatrick (US Ambassador to the UN)
2002
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Caresse
2001
Bob the Builder: Bob's White Christmas as Wendy / Jenny / Mrs. Percival / Mrs. Potts
2000
The House of Mirth as Mrs. Hatch
2000
24 Hours in London as Lloyd
2000
Jam as American Porn Actress
2000
Monarch of the Glen as Bonnie MacDonald
1999
Notting Hill as Anna's Publicist
1999
Bob the Builder as Wendy / Roley / Sumsy / Packer (voice)
1998
Cold Feet
1998
The Very Thought of You as US Ground Stewardess
1997
Jonathan Creek as Justine Bailey
1997
The Saint as TV Reporter
1995
Fantomcat
1995
Intimate with a Stranger as Ellen
1993
Avenger Penguins
1993
Thumpkin and the Easter Bunnies
1993
Chef as Savannah Concord
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
1975
Rumpole of the Bailey