It was then that Lowrie realized just how big that would be. McLain must have been really good at sounding mechanical - she got the job. But by the end, they realize she's lying. In Portal, GLaDOS has users do puzzles and keeps promising cake. "Well, never say never."įor the role of GLaDOS, actors who were auditioning were told to sound as much like a computer-generated voice as they possibly could.
"I thought, 'Why should I do this? I'd never get work,' " McLain says. Lowrie then urged his wife to audition, but she was reluctant. That will work fine."ĭevelopers got more savvy as the games became more cinematic. "So I said, 'Goodbye, son,' " Lowrie recalls.
Two starkly different scenarios, and Lowrie was given a difficult task: Read the script in a way that would work for both. So they called up the writer, who then let Lowrie know that the fictional son was either going to go down to the store and be right back, or step through a inter-dimensional gateway and go to another universe, never to be seen again. "And I said, why am I saying goodbye to him? What's going on," Lowrie says. One time, his line was simply: "Goodbye, son." Game developers would just hand him some lines with no direction. But in those days, the industry wasn't that sophisticated. Lowrie wasn't a snob about it it was a gig. Courtesy of John Patrick Lowrie and Ellen McLain Ellen McLain (center) meets with fans of GlaDOS, the popular character from the Portal and Portal 2 video games which she voices. "The first video game I did was a thing called Spy Fox Breakfast Cereal," he says. Lowrie started to land video game roles two decades ago. So this is a story of unlikely fame for McLain and Lowrie, now in their early 60s. Part of the appeal is the richly developed characters in the games. A 20-year-old has a good chance of having played them. More than a third of Americans play video games three or more hours a week.
"Professionals have standards," Lowrie's voice declares at the sniper. But now, he's famous for doing the voice of the snarky Australian sniper in the game Team Fortress 2. Her husband, John Patrick Lowrie, also had a successful career in music as a guitar composer. McLain is the voice of GLaDOS, the passive-aggressive computer in the games Portal and Portal 2. But now her voice is most famous for something entirely different: video games. Ellen McLain had a long career as an opera singer.
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