Carole Ruggier
Carole Ruggier is a British actress. As a casting director, director, and voice actress, she is best known for her work on video games. Some of her more notable roles include Athena in God of War and God of War II, and Auntie Dot in Halo: Reach. Ruggier's family were forced to leave Egypt as refugees from the Suez Crisis and she was born shortly after their arrival in the UK at The Elephant and Castle in London. She grew up in South London and eventually moved to Los Angeles with her husband in the early 1990s.[1]
Ruggier trained as an actress at The Arts Educational Drama School in the Barbican from 1979 - 1982 and worked extensively in the theatre in Britain including leading roles in productions of Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, The Accrington Pals, Outskirts by Hanif Kureshi, Stags and Hens, The Secret Rapture, Mary Barnes, Good Golly Miss Molly, The Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Gypsy, and The Threepenny Opera.
Her first television role was that of a Policewoman in an episode of the BBC TV series Tucker's Luck, followed by Life Without George, and two BBC mini series Love and Reason and Campion: Death of a Ghost, starring Peter Davison.
Her first voice acting role was in the 1995 video game, MechWarrior 2 as the Narrator (aka Bitchin' Betty) and she was invited to reprise the role for MechWarrior Online in 2013. In 2002 she voiced Professor Jocelyn Peabody, in the 26 episode animated TV series, Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future.
She has been a casting director on games such as Red Dead Revolver, Quake II, Devil May Cry 2, Quantum Redshift, Summoner 2, Red Faction 2, Age of Mythology, Maximo: Ghost to Glory, Steel Battalion, Conquest: Frontier Wars, Crimson Skies, StarLancer, Heavy Gear and several Tom Clancy games, including Ghost Recon, The Sum of All Fears, Rogue Spear, and Rainbow Six.
Before voicing Athena in God of War and God of War II, she had voiced the character of Athena in the 2002 game, Age of Mythology. She also voiced the character Aphrodite in God of War and the Geologist in Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. Although voicing Athena in both God of War and God of War II, she was not asked to return for God of War III or the two PlayStation Portable installments. Before voicing Auntie Dot in Halo: Reach, Ruggier had only heard of Halo, but did not know what it was about until her husband "filled [her] in". She also cast and directed the voices for the games Freelancer, Dino Crisis 3, Devil May Cry 2, Chaos Legion, Combat Flight Simulator 2 and the GameCube remake of Resident Evil.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Retroplayer (4 September 2011). "Athena Speaks! An Interview with Carole Ruggier". TheGamingLiberty. Retrieved 17 June 2013.