Glynnis Talken Campbell
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Glynnis Talken Campbell (born in California) is a romance author, musician and voiceover artist. Campbell studied music at California State University, Chico where she met husband and professional musician Rich Campbell. She is the mother to son Dylan and daughter Brynna and her first romantic novel My Champion was nominated for a Romance Writers of America's RITA award for Best First Book.
[edit] Career
After college, Campbell moved to Los Angeles where she joined an all-girl rock band The Pinups signed to CBS records. After a short time with the band she decided that a life in music wasn't what she wanted but thanks to her experience with being on the recording end of a microphone she quickly found work doing voiceovers.
She was given the role of Julie Winters in an MTV animated series based on a graphic novel called The Maxx. As she described in a recent interview[1] the staff of computer games company Blizzard Entertainment had seen this performance and requested her services to add voiceovers for a collection of characters from Diablo and StarCraft.
Campbell's moody work with the voiceover for Sarah Kerrigan was instrumental in setting the game's atmosphere and for developing the plot. A recent online review of computer game characters gave the voice a 10/10 rating and described the character as "one of the best-sounding women ever to come out of a computer game"[2].
Besides voice acting, Glynnis Talken is an avid medieval romance book writer and has been nominated to various important literature awards. After joining Warner Books as her new publisher during late 2005, the publisher asked her to change her pseudonym of Glynnis Campbell. She choose her new book writer pseudonym: Sarah McKerrigan, in homage to her Starcraft voice acting. Glynnis published Lady Danger in April 2006 and Captive Heart on October 2006 using Sarah McKerrigan pseudonym.
[edit] Voiceover Parts
Characters recorded by Campbell for Blizzard Entertainment games include:
- The Rogue from Diablo
- Gillian the Barmaid from Diablo
- Kashya from Diablo II
- Lieutenant Sarah Kerrigan (later Infested Kerrigan or "The Zerg Queen of Blades") from StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War
- Terran Medic from StarCraft: Brood War
Campbell has also worked extensively on a collection of audiobooks for Time Warner including some from the Star Wars series, one as Nomi Sunrider.
