Jennifer Hale

Jennifer Hale is, to me, one of the unsung architects of modern gaming. If you have played Mass Effect, Metroid Prime, Halo, BioShock Infinite or Knights of the Old Republic, you have heard her work, and her FemShep arguably defined a generation of player attachment to a character. Guinness once named her the most prolific video game voice actor, a record she held until 2024, and that longevity says everything about her range and reliability. What I appreciate is how she brings genuine emotional weight to roles many people never see a face for. Canadian-born and American-based, she is a quiet giant of the medium.

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Name (English)

Jennifer Hale

Name (Japanese)

ジェニファー・ヘイル

Reading

じぇにふぁー・へいる

Born

January 30, 1972 (age 54)

Origin

Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Occupation

musician / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

University

Birmingham–Southern College

• Official sitehttps://jenniferhale.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jhalegram/
• Xhttps://x.com/jhaletweets
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Hale
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%8B%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195041

Tags

• Newfoundland and Labrador
• musician
• voice actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.