Mythical voice of Glenn Close, Princess Leia, “Doctor Quinn”, “Ulysse 31” and “Dallas”, Awnlyn Séléna died on March 25 at 85.
The dubbing actress Évelyn Séléna died on March 25, we learned last night. She was 85 years old. His voice was best known to fans of the first Star Wars trilogy, but also viewers of Doctor Quinn, woman doctor and Dallas.
Beginnings with Fernandel
Gafer In “Happy who like Ulysses” (1970)
Born in July 1939, Évelyn Schetrit known as En Évelyn Séléna began her career on the radio in Morocco before being a student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique de Paris in the early 1960s. Apart from two appearances alongside Fernandel in the butter (1963) and Happy cuisine that like Ulysses … (1975), she specializes in dubbing.
We can hear it from the 1970s in films like Mr Majestyk or the sanction, but also Italian cinema like Ludwig or the twilight of the gods, and Italian bis cinema as American (pray the dead, kill the living, blacula).
Princess Séléna
Lucasfilm Ltd.
The role that will really make it known to the French-speaking world is undoubtedly that of Princess Leia in the Star War (1977), the Empire Counter-attack (1980) and the return of the Jedi (1983). For millions of spectators, she is the princess, of course embodied by Carrie Fisher.
From the 1980s, Séléna became the recurring voice of Glenn closed from fatal affair (1987) to Seven Sisters (2017). We also owe him the dubbing of Helen Mirren in a dozen films including Excalibur, the Red or Benjamin Gates films and the Book of Secrets.
Sue Ellen and Doctor Quinn
CBS
But above all, she ensures the voice of Jane Seymour in most of her TV appearances including Doctor Quinn, a woman doctor and that of Linda Gray in Sue Ellen Ewing in the series (and TV movies) Dallas.
Her voxography is too rich to be entirely detailed here, but the actress has left her mark on a number of mythical roles.
Of course, cartoons will also call on her talents, she will be Shyrka, the central computer of Ulysses 31, Tila in the masters of the universe, the narrator of the mysterious cities of gold, Norma Herman in Cobra and Milady de Winter in Albert the 5th Mousquetaire.
