Lorelei King
Acting • Born 1963-03-08
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.
Filmography
47 credits
Notting Hill
Movie • 1999
Anna's Publicist
The Saint
Movie • 1997
TV Reporter
24 Hours in London
Movie • 2000
Lloyd
Bob the Builder: When Bob Became a Builder
Movie • 2006
Wendy (US) / Mrs. Potts (US) (voice)
Bob the Builder: The Big Dino Dig
Movie • 2011
Dizzy/Roley/Wendy (voice)
Bob the Builder: Bob's Big Plan
Movie • 2005
Wendy (US), Mrs. Potts (US), Bunty Ferguson (US) (voice)
Bob the Builder: Race to the Finish
Movie • 2008
Wendy / Roley (voice)
Bob the Builder: Hammer Time
Movie • 2013
Wendy / Mrs. Barbara Bentley / Dot / Vicky / Sophia
Bob the Builder: Teamwork Time
Movie • 2012
Wendy / Roley / Ella
Bob the Builder: Scrambler to the Rescue
Movie • 2007
Wendy / Roley / Dot / Mrs. Bentley / Packer
Bob the Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games
Movie • 2004
Wendy
Bob the Builder: Bob's White Christmas
Movie • 2001
Wendy / Jenny / Mrs. Percival / Mrs. Potts
HIT Favorites: Frosty Friends
Movie • 2009
Wendy / Mrs. Potts
HIT Favorites: Winter Wonderland
Movie • 2007
Wendy / Jenny
Bob The Builder Animal Adventures
Movie • 2013
Wendy / Mrs. Potts / Mrs. Broadbent
Bob the Builder: Bob's Friends and Family
Movie • 2003
Wendy / Dorothy / Florence Mountfitchet / Mrs. Percival (voice)
Bob the Builder: Christmas With Bob and the Crew
Movie • 2003
Wendy / Bunty Ferguson / Mrs. Potts / Jenny (voice)
Bob the Builder: Built to be Wild
Movie • 2006
Wendy (voice)
Thumpkin and the Easter Bunnies
Movie • 1993
Stan
Movie • 2006
Lucille
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Movie • 2002
Caresse
Alien: Covenant
Movie • 2017
'Mother' (voice)
Shining Through
Movie • 1992
Leland's New Secretary
The Very Thought of You
Movie • 1998
US Ground Stewardess
Bob the Builder: Build it Big! Playpack
Movie • 2013
Bob the Builder: Build It and They Will Come
Movie • 2012
The House of Mirth
Movie • 2000
Mrs. Hatch
The Falklands Play
Movie • 2002
Jeanne Kirkpatrick (US Ambassador to the UN)
Coping with Cupid
Movie • 1991
Captain Trulove
Intimate with a Stranger
Movie • 1995
Ellen
Cold Feet
TV • 1998
Chef
TV • 1993
Savannah Concord
Jonathan Creek
TV • 1997
Justine Bailey
Monarch of the Glen
TV • 2000
Bonnie MacDonald
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV • 1975
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
TV • 1983
Lecturer
Bob the Builder
TV • 1999
Wendy / Roley / Sumsy / Packer (voice)
Fantomcat
TV • 1995
Elliott from Earth
TV • 2021
Avenger Penguins
TV • 1993
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
TV • 2010
Broken News
TV • 2005
Loren Peterson
The Robinsons
TV • 2005
Not Going Out
TV • 2006
Therapist
Jam
TV • 2000
American Porn Actress
Birds of a Feather
TV • 1989
L.A. Jailer
After You've Gone
TV • 2007
Faye Tucker