You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 190.

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Welcome to the first part of my interview with the extraordinary Courtney Taylor.

Courtney has a signature sound to her voice that she's been using to great effect in both commercials and character work since the early 2000s.

You may have heard her performances in games where she's played Johani in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic,

Ada Wong and numerous Resident Evil titles, the female

player character in Fallout Legacy, and Jack in the Mass Effect series of games. In animation,

she's famous for playing Starla in the regular show, and CO in OKKO, Let's Be Heroes. In addition to

her voice acting work, she also helps run Nerds Vote, a non-partisan

organization that encourages nerds of any fandom to register to vote and participate in American

democracy. You can find out more information about it at nerdsvote.com. In this episode, we begin our

conversation by discussing how Courtney got started as a voice actor.

Her acting background is a little unconventional.

She initially got involved in theater in high school as a makeup artist.

She was a fan of the punk band, Susie and the Banshees, and would often do her own makeup in the style of the lead singer.

A theater teacher at her high school admired her look, and asked if she would help do the

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