Background
Lorelei King was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Lorelei King was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
She has narrated audiobooks, acted in radio plays for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 and appeared on television She spent her childhood moving between Pennsylvania, Arkansas and California. In 1981, she planned to move to either Paris, or Yugoslavia, where her family originated.
She had a three-day stopover in London, but decided to stay in Britain.
Her first appearance was in the 1983 drama Murrow, 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 Human Resources boss, Stella Lightfoot, Chef! (as Savanah) and in the Independent Television soap opera Emmerdale as showgirl Vonda Lockhart. As well as this, she has also had parts in films such as Notting Hill as well leading her voice to radio shows and video games.
This includes Dirk Maggs" adaptations of The Adventures of Superman and Batman: Knightfall. She also voiced the character of Mary Osakwe in the unidentified flying object: Afterlight computer game.
In 2006, she appeared in an episode of sitcom Not Going Out as a therapist.
She has narrated over 200 audiobooks. King also provided the voice of Samus Aran"s Power Suit in a 2005 pinball video game, Metroid Prime Pinball. King"s work also includes:
Voicing several female characters (excluding Bella) in Avenger Penguins.
Tabs and Marmagora in Fantomcat.
And Wendy, Muck, Dizzy, and Roley in the American version of Bob the Builder. Narrating all audiobooks of the American children"s cartoon series Dinobabies, as well as books by Janet Evanovich, Darynda Jones, Patricia Briggs, Patricia Cornwell, and Debbie Macomber.
In addition to numerous Audiofile Earphone and Audie Awards, she was voted Performer of the Year in 1999 and 2001 by the United Kingdom APA and Best Narrator of the Year by Audible.com in 2011. Playing all the female roles in Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel, that was adapted in the 1990s for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 from the original Marx Brothers radio series broadcast in the 1930s.
Voice directing the Consultants to Government and Industry animated series Chuggington and several video games such as Gray Matter and Lost Chronicles of Zerzura.
Writing scripts for Chuggington and as well rewriting some of the original scripts for Bob the Builder.