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Jennifer Hale (born January 30, 1972^[1] in Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian-born American actress and singer^[2] best known for her voice over work in video games like Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the Metroid Prime trilogy,^[3] the Metal Gear Solid series, Mass Effect, Brütal Legend, and Disney's animated movies.^[4][5]

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Hale was born in Canada to parents who are originally from Birmingham, Alabama. She grew up in the United States, attending the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. While in high school, Hale began working as a production assistant. After graduation, Hale worked as an actress, commuting between Birmingham and Atlanta. She got her first big break in the 1988 made-for-TV movie A Father's Homecoming.^[6]

Later she moved to Hollywood and has been doing voices for video games, animation, commercials, radio promotions, anime, and movies since 1993. She has also been a guest on several well-known TV shows, such as Charmed, ER, Just Shoot Me!, among others. She was sometimes credited as Carren Learning. She plays Cinderella and Princess Aurora in various Disney productions.She also voiced the undercover spy Sam Simpsons in the cartoon series Totally Spies and the second actress to voice Jessie Bannon in the short lived The real adventures of Jonny Quest 2nd remake of the animated series of Jonny Quest.She later voiced Bastila Shan for the popular Star Wars video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, whose looks seem to be based on Hale's,^{[original research?]} as well as the female version of Jaden Korr in Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. She voiced the female version of Commander Shepard in the video game Mass Effect. She is also known as the "voice" of Samus Aran in all three games in the Metroid Prime trilogy, providing grunts and screams as the player moves and takes damage. Hale is also known for playing Naomi Hunter in Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots^[3]

In 2008, Jennifer Hale voiced Aayla Secura in several episodes of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series.^[7]

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• Official website
• Jennifer Hale at the Internet Movie Database
• Jennifer Hale at TV.com