Chloé Hollings is a French-born Australian voice actress. She is internationally best known for voicing the character Widowmaker in the video game ''Overwatch'' (2016) in both English and French.

Early life

Chloé Hollings was born on April 15 in Paris to a French father and an English-Australian mother. As a child, her family moved to

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. She has a scar on her chin as a result of a childhood fall.

Career

She has trained under

Jean-Laurent Cochet Jean-Laurent Cochet (28 January 1935 – 7 April 2020) was a French director and actor. Biography He was best known for starring in movies such as '' A Thousand Billion Dollars'' and ''Fort Saganne''. He was an important teacher for acting. Hund ...

, Luis Jaime-Cortez, Jordan Beswick, and Scott Williams. She has performed in the theater, and voiced documentaries, advertisements and short plays. As a singer, she is a

lyric soprano A lyric soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice that has a warm quality with a bright, full timbre that can be heard over an orchestra. The lyric soprano voice generally has a higher tessitura than a soubrette and usually plays ingenues and ...

. She voices the character Widowmaker in both the English and French version of ''

Overwatch ''Overwatch'' is a multimedia franchise centered on a series of online multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) video games developed by Blizzard Entertainment: '' Overwatch'' released in 2016, and '' Overwatch 2'' released in 2022. Both games f ...

'' (2016), a hit video game developed by

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. Additionally, she voices the character in the Overwatch Animated Shorts. She has written a book called ''Fuck les régimes!'' ("Fuck diets!"), published in French in 2016.

Personal life

Originally a resident of

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, Hollings relocated to

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in 2019 for new life experiences and to be closer to her best friends among the ''Overwatch'' cast.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Bibliography

*''Fuck les régimes!'' (2016)

External links

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hollings, Chole Living people Actresses from Paris Australian expatriates in the United States Australian film actresses Australian stage actresses Australian television actresses Australian video game actresses Australian voice actresses French expatriates in the United States French film actresses French stage actresses French television actresses French video game actresses French voice actresses Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Australian actresses 21st-century French actresses