Ellen McLain

Ellen McLain

Ellen McLain was born on December 01, 1952 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, is Actress, Soundtrack, Music Department. Ellen McLain is an opera singer and voice actress from Nashville, Tennessee, USA. She provides the voices of many characters in several video games from Valve. Among them are GLaDOS, the artificial-intelligence antagonist in Portal (2007) (for which she won an AIAS Interactive Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Performance) , Portal 2 (2011), and Lego Dimensions (2015), the announcer in Team Fortress 2 (2007), and the voice of the Combine over-watch of the Half-Life 2 (2004) series. McLain is the only person whose voice is in all of the Orange Box games.McLain sang "Still Alive," the ending-credits song of Portal, and "Want You Gone," the ending-credits song of Portal 2. Both were written by Jonathan Coulton. She also sang the opera-style turret song featured at the end of Portal 2, which is referred to by fans as the Turret Opera.McLain is married to John Patrick Lowrie, a fellow voice actor, who also worked on the video games Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. In the former, her husband voiced a citizen who assists the protagonist. In the latter, he voiced the Sniper.
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Popular As	Ellen McLain
Occupation	Actress
Age	70 years old
Zodiac Sign	Capricorn
Born	December 01, 1952 ( Nashville, Tennessee, United States)
Birthday	December 01
Town/City	Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Nationality	United States

🌙 Zodiac

Ellen McLain’s zodiac sign is Capricorn. According to astrologers, Capricorn is a sign that represents time and responsibility, and its representatives are traditional and often very serious by nature. These individuals possess an inner state of independence that enables significant progress both in their personal and professional lives. They are masters of self-control and have the ability to lead the way, make solid and realistic plans, and manage many people who work for them at any time. They will learn from their mistakes and get to the top based solely on their experience and expertise.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Ellen McLain was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.

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Biography/Timeline

1986

McLain has been married to fellow voice actor John Patrick Lowrie since 1986. In Half-Life 2, her husband voiced the citizens who assist the protagonist. In Team Fortress 2, Lowrie voices the Sniper.

2011

McLain sang "Still Alive" and "Want You Gone", the ending credits songs to Portal and Portal 2, respectively, both of which were written by Jonathan Coulton. She sang "Cara Mia Addio" at the end of Portal 2. It is sometimes called the "Turret Opera". In December 2011, McLain won the Spike Video Game Award in the category "Best Performance by a Human Female" for her voice acting as GLaDOS in Portal 2.

2013

In 2013, she lent her public support to gathering donations for the Kickstarter-funded LGBT Gaming convention GaymerX. She later was a special guest at the convention in August 2013. In 2015, she portrayed Lisa Clarke in the gay independent film, Winning Dad.