"I was chasing my horse one time, we were playing, this sounds crazy, but we were playing tag in this arena and I'm chasing him around and it was a really deep, sandy arena, and I tripped, and I just did a full-on faceplant, and was like "PLUAAEH", you know, one of those things? And as I go down and I get the wind knocked out of me, I'm thinking "oh, I gotta remember that sound..."
— Hale herself during an interview
with UltraNeko, telling us just how dedicated she is to her job.
with UltraNeko, telling us just how dedicated she is to her job.Jennifer Leigh Hale (born January 30, 1972 in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Canada) is a prolific Canadian-born American actress and singer best known for her voice over work in video games and appearances in numerous animated series. With 129 appearances, she was given the title of the "Most Prolific Voice Actress in Video Games" by Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2012.
Notable roles from Hale:
Film
- Cinderella in Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, Cinderella III: A Twist in Time and Ralph Breaks the Internet
- Electra Oviro in Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
- Kamira in Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel
- Shannon Lucas and Ridley in Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness
- Thorn in Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost and Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire
Live-Action TV
- Executive #1 in Melrose Place (episode - "The Rumor Whisperer")
- Gloria in ER (episode - "Tribes")
Video Games
- Commander Shepard (female) in the Mass Effect series and her clone in the "Citadel" DLC of Mass Effect 3
- Alexandra Roivas and one of Xel'lotath's voices in Eternal Darkness
- Princess Andria, and Harowen, in Revenant
- Ashe in Overwatch
- Astrid Greenwood and the unnamed female sandbox survivor in The Long Dark
- Bastila Shan in Knights of the Old Republic and Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
- Bayonetta (and many of her variants) in Bayonetta 3
- Cassidy Sharp in Dark Watch
- Princess Cinderella and Princess Aurora in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
- Delma in Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits
- Dory in Finding Nemo
- Dynaheir in Baldur's Gate
- Elena in Grandia II
- Elizabet "Lizzie" Ramsey in Age of Empires III
- Erinys (shared with Erin Torpey) and Young Callisto in God of War: Ghost of Sparta
- Grand Magistrix Elisande and Illysana in World of Warcraft
- Fall-From-Grace and Deionarra in Planescape: Torment
- Anne Barret in Samurai Western. She also voiced a random child in another cutscene.
- Felicia Hardy/Black Cat and Mary Jane Watson-Parker in Spider-Man (2000)
- Mazzy Fentan in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
- Young Gaignun Kukai in Xenosaga Episode II
- Casi in Ape Escape: On The Loose
- Hawkgirl and Killer Frost in Injustice: Gods Among Us
- Jaden Korr (female) in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
- Jean Grey in Marvel vs. Capcom 3
- Jennifer Mui in Mercenaries
- Jun'ko Zane in Freelancer
- Katrina in Quest For Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
- Kimmy Howell and Alice Twilight in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
- Kimmy Love in No More Heroes III
- Krem in Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Kronika in Mortal Kombat 11
- Leah in Diablo III
- Lilith in Midnight Suns
- Lily in Scribblenauts Unlimited
- Lissandra the Ice Witch in League of Legends
- Lysandra and Alecto in God of War: Ascension
- Mireille Prideaux in République
- Mom in Broken Age
- Naomi Hunter and Emma Emmerich in the Metal Gear series
- Nariko in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (Substituting for Anna Torv)
- Naya Vashi Devereaux in FUSE
- Ophelia in Brütal Legend
- Persephone in Sacrifice
- Prier in La Pucelle
- Rivet in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Rosalind Lutece in BioShock Infinite
- Samus Aran's pain grunts in the Metroid Prime Trilogy
- Commander Sarah Palmer in the Halo series, where she occasionally acts as your Mission Control.
- Major Sarah Parker in Ground Control (one of her earliest game dubs)
- Satele Shan (descendant of Bastila) and Female Republic Trooper player characters in Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Sheena Fujibayashi in Tales of Symphonia
- Silver Sable in Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, and Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
- Tanya in Mortal Kombat X
- Trishka Novak in Bulletstorm
- Vanessa Z. Schneider in P.N.03
- The female Warden in For Honor
- Professor Lorelei Leigh in Scooby-Doo, Who's Watching Who?
- Lyris Titanborn in The Elder Scrolls Online
- The Player Character for female Sylvari in Guild Wars 2
Web Animation
- Bravowoman in the Bravoman animated web series
Western Animation
- Aayla Secura and Riyo Chuchi in Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Candy Kitty in The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
- Carmelita Vahtoss in The Tick
- Carol Ferris in Green Lantern: The Animated Series
- Cinderella, Violet, Suzette, Marcy, and Colette in Sofia the First
- Lt. Durga in Star Trek: Lower Decks
- Delilah Blake and Thorn in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
- Dora Smithy in Gotham Girls
- DT-F16 from Star Wars Rebels
- Emerald Empress in Legion of Super-Heroes
- Felicia Hardy/Black Cat in Spider-Man: The Animated Series
- Mary Jane Watson and Lady Vermin in Spider-Man Unlimited
- Freddy's Mom in Back at the Barnyard
- Gladys (Billy's mother) in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
- Julia Carpenter / Spider-Woman in the second season of Iron Man: The Animated Series
- Foxy in Motorcity
- Ivy from Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?
- Jean Grey in Wolverine and the X-Men (2009)
- Jessie Bannon in Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures
- Katnappe in Xiaolin Showdown
- Killer Frost, Giganta, and Zatanna in Justice League / Justice League Unlimited but also voiced other one off characters throughout as well. (She's actually voiced Killer Frost across five different productions. There's the aforementioned Justice League, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Injustice: Gods Among Us, and Batman: Assault on Arkham.)
- Kimiko and Willow in Xiaolin Chronicles
- Mad Harriet in Lego DC Super Hero Girls
- Avatar Kyoshi and June in Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Madison from Class of 3000
- Mallory McMallard in Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series
- Ms. Marvel in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
- Princess Morbucks, Sedusa and Miss Keane from The Powerpuff Girls (1998) (She only voices the latter in the reboot, as the former has been recast and the middle character is not in the reboot at all.)
- Numbuh 86, Mrs. Uno and the KND computer from Codename: Kids Next Door
- Sam and Mandy from Totally Spies!
- Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins
- Talyn (a.k.a. Princess Jennifer Lightstar) from Skeleton Warriors
- Gabby McStabberson in Ducktales 2017
- Mantis in Guardians of the Galaxy (2015)
- Penn's mother on T.O.T.S.
- Rani and Sherry on Vampirina
- Mrs. Vetch, a talking plant who appears in Trini's dreams in the Molly of Denali episode "It Came From Beyond."
Tropes relating to Jennifer Hale:
- Acting for Two: She usually ends up doing this in video games as she tends to voice characters other than her main role. And also in Totally Spies! as Sam and Mandy.
- Action Girl: Most of her characters. She herself is also a volunteer wildfire animal evacuation specialist.
- But Not Too Foreign: She was born in Canada, yet her parents were American and she grew up in Atlanta.
- Cross-Dressing Voices: She is fully capable of voicing boys, but does so very rarely. Krem, from Dragon Age: Inquisition, is a transgender man, which leads her to perform as if she were playing this trope straight, but from a technical standpoint, would be perfectly fine using a regular speaking voice. She simply uses a rougher, even deeper version of her usual voice.
- I Am Not Spock: Towards Female Shepard and Bastila. Though unlike most instances of this, she doesn't hate or try to distance herself from these roles.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Once Bastila's original design as Vima Sunrider was scrapped, her appearance was redesigned to better closely resemble Hale.
- Irony: Despite being the most prolific video game voice actress, she has admitted that she's terrible at playing them.
- The Klutz: Not so much with physical things, but whenever she tries to play video games, it doesn't go so well:
- Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Averted, as she managed a solid RP-accent as Bastila. Not to mention her accent as Katrina in Quest for Glory IV, Jennifer Mui in Mercenaries, Kimmy Howell in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, Rosalind Lutece in BioShock Infinite, or Fall-From-Grace in Planescape: Torment.
- Pigeonholed Voice Actor: She usually voices action girls and redheads. She's stated in convention panels that being pigeonholed as a badass is preferable to being a damsel in distress. If nothing else, she voices plenty of spunky characters.
- Platonic Life-Partners: With Mark Meer, the Distaff Counterpart to her FemShep.
- Role Reprise:
- Outside of Young Justice (2010) and Justice League Heroes, she's usually the voice of Killer Frost.
- Like a number of her Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) co-stars (including, to no one's surprise, Steve Blum as the titular Wolverine), she reprised the role of Jean Grey for Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Marvel Anime: X-Men.
- She reprises her role as Rojo from the original Ben 10 series in Ben 10: Omniverse after being replaced by Kari Wahlgren for Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.note
- Outside of The Spectacular Spider-Man, she's usually been the voice of Silver Sable since the Ultimate Spider-Man game.
- Reprised her respective roles from Spider-Man: The Animated Series as Black Cat and Spider-Man Unlimited as Mary Jane in Spider-Man (2000) alongside Rino Romano (who reprises his role from Unlimited as Spidey himself) and the late Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (who reprises his TAS role as Doctor Octopus). She also recently reprised the role of Black Cat again when the character became playable in Marvel Heroes.
- Woman of a Thousand Voices: She does have a hell of a range, as shown by her roles in Totally Spies!, the Soul series, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, and The Powerpuff Girls (1998), despite having to use her standard action girl voice, or a variation of it, to fit certain characters.
- You Go, Girl!: In her own words, she likes to "play where the boys play" and enjoys voicing action girls in order to achieve this.
