Background
Pradier was born in Hanoi, French Indochina.
Pradier was born in Hanoi, French Indochina.
She is best known for her work as a voice actress which earned her the nickname of "Queen" or "High Priestess" of dubbing. Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in a number of films in her native France, then was contracted for Hollywood productions that included the Fred Zinnemann film starring luminaries Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif. She returned to English-language filming in the Universal Studios thriller, with Orson Welles and George Peppard.
In her long career, Perrette Pradier has also worked in live theatre, appearing in plays such as Louisiana Bonne Addresse as well as the longest running French play ever produced, Boeing Boeing.
In 1994, she was the voice of "Sarafina" in the French version of the Walt Disney Studios animated feature film, The Lion King. Pradier died on 16 January 2013, aged 74, in Rueil-Malmaison, France.