Lorelei King
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 8, 1963 (age 63)
- Birthplace
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Elliott from Earth
TV · 16 eps
Alien: Covenant
Movie · as 'Mother' (voice)
Bob the Builder: Hammer Time
Movie · as Wendy / Mrs. Barbara Bentley / Dot / Vicky / Sophia
Bob The Builder Animal Adventures
Movie · as Wendy / Mrs. Potts / Mrs. Broadbent
Bob the Builder: Build it Big! Playpack
Movie
Bob the Builder: Teamwork Time
Movie · as Wendy / Roley / Ella
Bob the Builder: Build It and They Will Come
Movie
Bob the Builder: The Big Dino Dig
Movie · as Dizzy/Roley/Wendy (voice)
HiT Favorites: Preschool Fun
Movie · as Wendy / Roley (voice)
HiT Favorites: Sweet Dreams
Movie · as Wendy / Roley (voice)
HiT Favorites: Friends and Family
Movie · as Wendy (voice)
The Amazing World of Gumball
TV · as Samantha (voice) · 1 ep
HiT Favorites: Animal Tails
Movie · as Wendy (voice)
HiT Favorites: Colors Are Fun!
Movie · as Wendy / Roley (voice)
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
TV · 52 eps
HiT Favorites: Frosty Friends
Movie · as Wendy / Mrs. Potts (voice)
Bob the Builder: Race to the Finish
Movie · as Wendy / Roley (voice)
Bob the Builder: Scrambler to the Rescue
Movie · as Wendy / Roley / Dot / Mrs. Bentley / Packer
HiT Favorites: Winter Wonderland
Movie · as Wendy / Jenny (voice)
Thomas & Friends: Thomas & Friends on the Big Screen
Movie · as Wendy / Roley (voice)
After You've Gone
TV · as Faye Tucker · 1 ep
Bob the Builder: When Bob Became a Builder
Movie · as Wendy (US) / Mrs. Potts (US) (voice)
Bob the Builder: Built to be Wild
Movie · as Wendy (voice)
Stan
Movie · as Lucille
Not Going Out
TV · as Therapist · 1 ep
Bob the Builder: Bob's Big Plan
Movie · as Wendy (US), Mrs. Potts (US), Bunty Ferguson (US) (voice)
Broken News
TV · as Loren Peterson · 6 eps
The Robinsons
TV · as Sex Therapist · 1 ep
Bob the Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games
Movie · as Wendy
Bob the Builder: Bob's Friends and Family
Movie · as Wendy / Dorothy / Florence Mountfitchet / Mrs. Percival (voice)
Bob the Builder: Christmas With Bob and the Crew
Movie · as Wendy / Bunty Ferguson / Mrs. Potts / Jenny (voice)
Trust
TV · as Samantha Candela · 1 ep
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Movie · as Caresse
The Falklands Play
Movie · as Jeanne Kirkpatrick (US Ambassador to the UN)
Bob the Builder: Bob's White Christmas
Movie · as Wendy / Jenny / Mrs. Percival / Mrs. Potts
24 Hours in London
Movie · as Lloyd
The House of Mirth
Movie · as Mrs. Hatch
Monarch of the Glen
TV · as Bonnie MacDonald · 1 ep
Jam
TV · as American Porn Actress · 1 ep
Notting Hill
Movie · as Anna's Publicist
Bob the Builder
TV · as Wendy (voice), Wendy / Roley (voice) · 188 eps
The Very Thought of You
Movie · as US Ground Stewardess
Cold Feet
TV · as Natalie · 6 eps
The Saint
Movie · as TV Reporter
Jonathan Creek
TV · as Justine Bailey · 2 eps
Intimate with a Stranger
Movie · as Ellen
Fantomcat
TV · 26 eps
Thumpkin and the Easter Bunnies
Movie
Chef
TV · as Savannah Concord · 6 eps
Avenger Penguins
TV · 26 eps
Shining Through
Movie · as Leland's New Secretary
Coping with Cupid
Movie · as Captain Trulove
Birds of a Feather
TV · as L.A. Jailer · 1 ep
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
TV · as Lecturer · 1 ep
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV · as Linda Milson · 1 ep