Ellen McLain
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, and recently, the voice of one of Delamain's cabs in Cyberpunk 2077 (2020). 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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When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed-up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)—who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.