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| Lorelei King | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lorelei Elizabeth King 8 March 1963 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation | Actress, Television presenter |
| Years active | 1981– present |
Lorelei King is an American born actress who has been based in the United Kingdom since 1981. She has narrated audiobooks, acted in radio plays for BBC Radio 4 and appeared on television.
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Early life [link]
Lorelei King was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. She spent her childhood moving between Pennsylvania, Arkansas and California. In 1981, she planned to move to either Paris, or Yugoslavia, where her family originated. She had a three-day stopover in London, but decided to stay in Britain.[1]
Career [link]
King has made numerous television roles, which include drama, comedy and children's shows. Her first appearance was in the 1983 drama Murrow, a biography of the American news reporter and political commentator Edward R. Murrow and since then she has had roles in many British shows, such as Chef! (as Savanah) and in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as showgirl Vonda Lockhart. As well as this, she has also had parts in films such as Notting Hill as well leading her voice to radio shows and video games. This includes Dirk Maggs' adaptations of The Adventures of Superman and Batman: Knightfall. She also voiced the character of Mary Osakwe in the UFO: Afterlight computer game. In 2006, she appeared in an episode of sitcom Not Going Out as a therapist. She has narrated over 200 audiobooks.[1] King also provided the voice of Samus Aran's Power Suit in a 2005 pinball video game, Metroid Prime Pinball.[2]
King's work also includes:
- Voicing several female characters (except for Bella) in Avenger Penguins; Tabs and Marmagora in Fantomcat; and Wendy, Muck, Dizzy, and Roley in the American version of Bob the Builder
- Narrating all audiobooks of the American children's cartoon series Dinobabies
- Playing all the female roles in Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel, that was adapted in the 1990s for BBC Radio 4 from the original Marx Brothers radio series broadcast in the 1930s
Personal life [link]
King lives in London with her husband, actor Vincent Marzello.[3] She is a British citizen.[1]
References [link]
- ^ a b c Staff (22 May 2006). "A voice made for audiobooks, Publishers Weekly, Reed Business Information (archived at AccessMyLibrary).
- ^ Fuse Games. Metroid Prime Pinball. (Nintendo). Scene: Staff credits. (October 24, 2005) "Suit Voice: Lorelei King"
- ^ "Lorelei King biography", LoreleiKing.com.
External links [link]
https://wn.com/Lorelei_King
Lorelei
The Lorelei is a 132 m (433 ft) high, steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge (or Middle Rhine) at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany.
Etymology
The name comes from the old German words lureln, Rhine dialect for "murmuring", and the Celtic term ley "rock". The translation of the name would therefore be: "murmur rock" or "murmuring rock". The heavy currents, and a small waterfall in the area (still visible in the early 19th century) created a murmuring sound, and this combined with the special echo the rock produces to act as a sort of amplifier, giving the rock its name. The murmuring is hard to hear today owing to the urbanization of the area. Other theories attribute the name to the many accidents, by combining the German verb "lauern" (to lurk, lie in wait) with the same "ley" ending, with the translation "lurking rock".
By the German language orthographic reform of 1903, in almost all German terms letter "y" was changed for letter "i", but in some German names the letter "y" was kept, such as Speyer, Spay, (Rheinberg-)Orsoy, and including Loreley, which is thus the correct spelling in German.
Lorelei (song)
"Lorelei" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin; it was written for their musical Pardon My English (1933).
It is about the Loreley legend.
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Lorelei, Edmonton
Lorelei is a residential neighbourhood located in the Castledowns area of north Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
It is bounded on the north and west by Castledowns Road, on the east by 97 Street, and on the south by Beaumaris Road and 160 Avenue. Travel north along 97 Street takes residents past CFB Edmonton located just north of the city, while travel south along 97 Street takes residents past the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and into the downtown core.
Most of the residences in the neighbourhood were built in the 1970s and 1980s, with residences being a mixture of single-family dwellings (57%), row houses (25%), walk-up apartments in buildings with five or fewer stories (10%) and duplexes (8%). Roughly three out of four residences are owner-occupied.
Demographics
In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Lorelei had a population of 4,027 living in 1,475 dwellings, a -3.4% change from its 2009 population of 4,170. With a land area of 1.22 km2 (0.47 sq mi), it had a population density of 3,300.8 people/km2 in 2012.
