Moira Quirk
{{short description|British actress}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2022}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
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| alma_mater = Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
| years_active = 1992–present
| agent = [http://www.arlenethornton.com/on_camera_talent_detail.asp?id=118 Arlene Thornton and Associates]
| spouse = {{marriage|Michael Rayner|1996}}
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Moira Quirk is an English actress and comedian. As an audiobook narrator, she has won four Audie Awards.{{Cite web |title=2008 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US) |url=https://www.audiopub.org/winners/2008-audies |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=www.audiopub.org}}{{Cite web |title=2015 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US) |url=https://www.audiopub.org/winners/2015-winners-circle |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=www.audiopub.org}}
Personal life and education
Quirk received an honours degree in English and Drama from Westfield College, University of London and Central School of Speech and Drama.{{Cite web |title=Bio {{!}} Moira Quirk |url=http://moiraquirk.com/bio/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |language=en-US}} After graduation, she moved to Orlando, Florida.
Quirk married comedian Michael Rayner on May 26, 1996. The couple moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s. They have two daughters.{{Cite web |title=Bio |url=http://moiraquirk.com/bio/ |access-date=17 December 2018 |website=MoiraQuirk.com |language=en-GB}}
Career
Early in her career, Quirk took voice acting lessons from Susan Blu and Charlie Adler.
After graduating from Westfield College, University of London and Central School of Speech and Drama, Quirk moved to Orlando, Florida, where she worked at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida. Through this work, she became connected with Nickelodeon Studios. There, she became co-host and referee for Nickelodeon Guts for four seasons. She was also the hostess of the children's TV series Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps.
Quirk is also known as the voice of Brit Crust in the Nickelodeon animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot, as well as the voice of CHIPS in The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd. Quirk also appeared in the game Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, as the voice of the news reporter Adriana Livingston. She also voiced Daniella in the video game Haunting Ground, as well as Susie Smythe and Mei Ling on two episodes of What's New, Scooby-Doo?.
Quirk has additionally voiced several minor characters on popular animated series, such as Codename: Kids Next Door and Johnny Bravo.
She has voiced the character Karliah in the role-playing video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, as well as Elara Dorne in BioWare's MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Elhaym "Elly" van Houten in Xenogears, and Moira Vahlen in XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its expansion, Enemy Within. Quirk has also appeared in The Bard's Tale,{{cite video game | developer=InXile Entertainment | title=The Bard's Tale | publisher=InXile Entertainment | scene=Ending credits, 2:10:21 in, More Great Talent | year=2004}}{{Citation |title=[PS2 Longplay] The Bard's Tale Part 6 | date=6 September 2016 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWAUrJGTCA |language=en |access-date=2022-09-24}} and provides the voices of The Emissary of the Nine, Elisabeth Bray in Destiny 2, Tidepool in Skylanders: Imaginators, and some female extras in Destiny 2: Beyond Light. She voiced Vipsania and other characters in the 2005 Capcom game Shadow of Rome.
She also voiced Phyla-Vell on The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Hannahr in DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders.
Awards and honors
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!Year !Title !Award/Honor !Result !Ref. |
| 2005
|Listen Up Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy |Finalist |
|---|
| 2006
|Finalist |
| rowspan="3" |2008
|Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls by Yuri Rasovsky |Winner |
| Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls by Yuri Rasovsky
|Audie Award for Achievement in Production |Winner |
| Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls by Yuri Rasovsky
|Audie Award for Original Work |Winner |
| 2014
|Etiquette & Espionage (2013) by Gail Carriger |Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults |Top 10 |{{Cite web |last= |date=2014-01-30 |title=2014 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top Ten |url=https://www.ala.org/yalsa/2014-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults-top-ten |access-date=2022-09-24 |website=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Finneke |first=Jaclyn |date=2014-02-03 |title=YALSA names 2014 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults |url=https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/02/yalsa-names-2014-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |access-date=2022-09-24 |website=American Library Association |language=en}} |
| rowspan="3" |2015
|Anne Manx and the Blood Chase by Larry Weiner |Finalist |
| Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
|Finalist |
| {{Sortname|The|Hound of the Baskervilles}} (1902) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright
|Winner |
| rowspan="2" |2019
|Gideon the Ninth (2019) by Tamsyn Muir |AudioFile Best of Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror |Selection |
| {{Sortname|The|Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy|nolink=1}} by Mackenzi Lee
|Audie Award for Young Adult Title |Finalist |
| rowspan="3" |2021
|{{Sortname|The|Bone Houses}} (2019) by Emily Lloyd-Jones |Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults |Selection |
| {{Sortname|The|Locked Tomb|nolink=1}} by Tamsyn Muir
|Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults |Selection |
| Perks of Loving a Wallflower
|AudioFile Best of Romance |Selection |
| rowspan="2" |2022
|Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir |Finalist |
| Sixteen Scandals by Sophie Jordan
|Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults |Selection |
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
!Year !Title !Role |
| 1995
|Play It Again, Dad |Interviewer |
| 1998
|Suicide, the Comedy |Maggie |
| 2002
|{{Sortname|The|Wild Thornberrys Movie|link=The Wild Thornberrys Movie}} |
| 2004 |
| 2005
|Come as You Are |Suzie |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| rowspan="3"
|1992–1995 |Co-Host, Referee (as herself) |160 episodes |
| 1998
|Woman, Kid |
| 1997–2004
|Various voices |
| 1998
|Minnie |Episode: "Temptation and Responsibility" |
| 1998
|Brangwen |
| 2001
|{{Sortname|The|Wild Thornberrys}} |Emu |Episode: "Operation Valentine" |
| 2003–2006
|Brit, various voices |
| 2004–2005
|Mei Ling, Susie Smythe |2 episodes |
| 2005
|Khan'ja, Dora, Theatergoer |
| 2012
|The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes |Phyla-Vell / Quasar |
| 2016
|Mo |
| 2019–2022
|DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders |Hannahr |
=Video games=
| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes !Source |
| 1994
| | | |
| 1998
|Ellyham "Elly" van Houten | | |
| 2004
|{{Sortname|The|Bard's Tale|link=The Bard's Tale (2004 video game)}} | | |
| 2005
|Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction |Adriana Livingston | | |
| 2005
|Vipsania | |
| 2005
|Daniella, Ayla Belli | |
| 2011
|Candi, Rival | |
| 2011
|Karliah | |
| 2011
|Elara Dorne | |
| 2012
|Mercedes | |
| 2016
|Tidepool | | |
| 2020
|Exo Stranger, Elsie Bray | | |
| 2023
|Professor Garlick, additional voices | |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{official website}}
- {{IMDb name|id=1190771|name=Moira Quirk}}
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Category:20th-century English actresses
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Category:20th-century English comedians
Category:21st-century English comedians
Category:Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Category:English film actresses
Category:English radio actresses
Category:English stage actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:English television personalities
Category:English video game actresses
Category:English voice actresses
Category:English women comedians