Merle Dandridge
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| Merle Dandridge | |
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Okinawa, Japan |
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Actress, voice actress, singer |
Merle Dandridge is the voice actress for Alyx Vance in Half-Life 2 and its episodes. As well as Okinawa, Dandridge has lived in Sacramento, California, at Beale Air Force Base, and later at the Strategic Air Command Base in Bellevue, Nebraska, where she spent the majority of her childhood. She attended Papillion La Vista High School and participated in the play production class and theater department there.
She then attended Roosevelt University (currently called the Chicago College of Performing Arts) with a scholarship that she earned at the International Thespian Festival. While there, her love of acting developed.
According to Valve's Bill Van Buren, Merle was chosen among the last five over more than one hundred actors auditioning for the part. The team wanted "someone with a beautiful voice, who could be charming, very feminine, and warmly intimate, but could then go into intense circumstances and be a strong, confident, and believable action character."[1]
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[edit] External links
- Official website
Merle Dandridge at the Internet Movie Database
- Merle Dandridge on being Alyx
Half-Life 2 - Kleiner, Alyx Interview on YouTube
- Goodbye to Rent from Merle Dandridge on YouTube
