Having pretty much started her career over a decade-and-a-half ago voicing a litany of characters in Bioware’s Dragon Age: Origins, you’ve almost certainly heard her performance in the several years since in other genre greats such as Mass Effect 3, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Cyberpunk 2077, and perhaps most famously one of the female voice options in 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition – a role she recently reprised in last year’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
‘She’s kickass’ – Alix Wilton Regan on her Bioware beginnings and playing Joanna in the Perfect Dark reboot Having played countless iconic roles within the realm of video games, we talk to actor Alix Wilton Regan about her career highlights so far and what roles lay ahead in future.
Being a veteran of the video game voice acting craft has allowed Regan to keep a close eye on all the major industry trends that have arisen, whether it be changes stemming from the #MeToo movement, the rise of performance capture, or the ongoing battle between creative artists and generative AI.
Yes, her career is storied to say the least, and it looks set to ratchet up a gear once again in the near future thanks to her playing the starring role of Joanna Dark in Xbox’s upcoming Perfect Dark reboot.
Even when starting out as a freshly graduated drama school student, however, it didn’t take long for Regan to find her groove in a specific area of voice acting not too many of her peers or other prospective actors wanted to consider.
