# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellen-mclain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:55:57.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellen-mclain"
name: "Ellen McLain"
slug: "ellen-mclain"
description: "Ellen McLain is an American voice actress. She is best known for providing the voice of GLaDOS, the primary antagonist of the Portal video game series, the Combine Overwatch AI in Half-Life 2, and the Administrator, the announcer in Team Fortress 2. Her voice roles also include the Jaeger A.I. in Pacific Rim and The Witch in Left 4 Dead 2."
tagline: "American voice actress and opera singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ellen_McLain_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.92489466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/ellenmclain"
    handle:    "ellenmclain"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Ellen-McLain-ActorSinger-Voice-of-GLaDOS-from-Portal-127572263996348"
    handle:    "Ellen-McLain-ActorSinger-Voice-of-GLaDOS-from-Portal-127572263996348"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1655889/"
    handle:    "nm1655889"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ellenmclain.net"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ellen McLain"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Еллен Маклейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9F%83%E4%BC%A6%C2%B7%E9%BA%A6%E5%85%8B%E8%8E%B1%E6%81%A9"
    title: "埃伦·麦克莱恩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Ellen McLain"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump