The Village Elder's talking head portrait, that helped with the hardest task in storytelling: to give the mundane a soul
Florence Dire is an American actress best known for her work on Star Wars The Clone Wars and Mighty Joe Young.
The Village Elder of Arroyo was in the opening CGI, and was the first character with an animated talking head storytelling sequence in Fallout 2. The Village Elder's dust and dung mysticism in the introductory CGI was part of the barrage of storytelling content that greeted the player at the beginning of the game.
Along with other elements, including the breezy opening song, Satchmo's Kiss to Build a Dream On, the wide-eyed naiivete of the Vault instruction video, the Enclave Vault massacre animation, and fellow voice actor Ron Perlman's dour and foreboding narration, the CGI (at that time, known as FMVs, or Full Motion Video), set the stage for the game stylistically as a rollercoaster of contrasts. In contrast, her talking head sequence was crucial to giving the player a family identity and purpose to bond with very early in the game.
Ravel Puzzlewell
Her pivotal character, the solitary power of the Planes Ravel Puzzlewell, in Planescape:Torment, was the driving force in the Sigil half of the game, and a storytelling link between Sigil and Outer Planes
She appeared as Matier in Devil May Cry 2 and The Sorceress in Spyro: Year of the Dragon.
Her voice is in demand in advertising, after her "Something Wicked This Way Comes" voiceover in the LexusGS300 campaign led to promotions such as "Rescue Me," "Lady in the Water," "Cinderella III," "Tinkerbelle," "Merlin," "The X-Files," and others, and advertising for Bell South, Publix, Honeybaked Ham, and Dreyers Ice Cream[1]
The librarian Jocasta Nu, from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated TV series
Filmography[]
| Role | Title | Franchise | Medium | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jocasta Nu | Assassin | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Animated television series | 2010 | |
| Jocasta Nu | Lightsaber Lost | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Animated television series | 2009 | |
| Jocasta Nu | Holocron Heist | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Animated television series | 2009 | |
| Aneesa | Follow Your Dreams | Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: | video | 2007 | |
| Additional Voices | Avatar: The Last Airbender | Avatar: The Last Airbender | TV series | 2006 | |
| Additional Voices | Appa's Lost Days | 2006 | |||
| Muskox #1 | Clash and Learn | The Wild Thornberrys | TV series | 2003 | |
| Matier | Devil May Cry 2 | Devil May Cry | Video Game | 2003 | |
| The Sorceress / Additional | Spyro: Year of the Dragon | Spyro | Video Game | 2000 | |
| English dub | My Neighbors the Yamadas | 1999 | |||
| Ravel Puzzlewell | Planescape: Torment | Planescape, Black Isle | Video Game | 1999 | Driving force in the Sigil half of the game, storytelling link between Sigil and Outer Planes |
| Bambi's Owner | Mighty Joe Young | 1998 | |||
| Elder of Arroyo (as Florence Dire) | Fallout 2: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game | Fallout, Black Isle | Video Game | 1998 | Crucial to setting the stage for the game stylistically with an introductory CGI and a Talking head storytelling sequence very early in the game |
| voice | Quack Pack | The Really Mighty Ducks | TV series | 1996 | |
| Shop Owner | Mother | video | 1995 | ||
| Psychologist | Whispers of the Dead | Bodies of Evidence | TV series | 1993 | |
| Irene | Running Mates | TV movie | 1992 | ||
| Receptionist | Seinfeld | TV series | 1991 | ||
| Receptionist | The Note | 1991 | as Flo DiRe | ||
| Secretary | Baby Talk | TV series | 1991 | ||
| Secretary | One Night with Elliot | 1991 | |||
| Helen | Changes | TV movie | 1991 | ||
| Dr. Weiss | In Confidence | Equal Justice | TV series | 1991 | |
| Young Sophia | Clinton Avenue Memoirs | The Golden Girls | TV series | 1990 | |
| Gina | Foreign Exchange | The Golden Girls | TV series | 1989 | |
| Attendant | Best Interests | Knots Landing | TV series | 1989 | |
| Wilderness Official | Troop Beverly Hills | 1989 | |||
| Dr. Silverman | Baby M | TV movie | 1988 | ||
| Peg | Gift Horse | Mama's Family | TV series | 1987 | |
| Maid | The Way to Dusty Death | Murder, She Wrote | TV series | 1987 | |
| Bobbie | Gone with the Wind: Part 2 | The Facts of Life | TV series | 1985 | |
| Stenographer | Deadly Force | ||||
| Jane Doe #37 | 1 episode | Cagney & Lacey | television series | 1983 | |
| Mental Patient | Frances | 1982 | as Flo di Re | ||
| Fitter of Style Design | A Different Story | 1978 |