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
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a me ...
.
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
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and video game publisher, publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse, ...
. 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
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...
, Hollings relocated to
Los Angeles
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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
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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