From Mind Your Language to Doctor Who, Penang-born actress is the voice of Dark Souls
Pik-Sen Lim’s voiceover in Dark Souls is part of a decades-long acting career, with appearances in Doctor Who and Mind Your Language
DARK Souls, the iconic 2011 video game that spawned an entire sub-genre – known as soulslikes – for masochists who think gaming has gotten too easy and who love a challenge by bludgeoning, stabbing and slashing all manner of messed up beasts and monsters.
The game, by Japanese developer From Software and published by Bandai Namco, starts out with an opening prologue, showcasing the different lords, setting the atmosphere of the game, all with the soothing voice of the narrator intoning the ominous backstory of the dark gothic world.
The narrator was Pik-Sen Lim, born Lim Phaik-Seng, a British-Malaysian from Penang who was born in 1944, making her 77 years old today. She moved to the UK when she was 16 where she studied at the London School of Dramatic Art.
Her long and extensive career in British television led the British Film Institute to eventually call her “probably the most familiar Chinese actor on British television screens in the 1970s and 80s”.
Probably the most well-known show she was on was a classic series of the iconic British science fiction drama Doctor Who, specifically during the run of the Third Doctor in the early 70s. She played Captain Chin Lee, a delegate at a peace conference between the UK and China.
In the late 70s, she appeared in the hit show Mind Your Language, about a diverse group of immigrants who learn English at an adult education school in London.
Since then, she has racked up a large number of credits to her name – according to IMDB she has 68 in total, including her voiceover work in Dark Souls and Dark Souls III (2016).
source – The Vibes
