Clare Corbett

Clare Corbett’s Voice in the Lands Between and Beyond

Few performers have left as quiet yet indelible a mark on FromSoftware’s worlds as Clare Corbett. A British actress who trained at the Welsh College of Music and Drama, she went on to win the prestigious Carleton Hobbs Radio Award in 2000 – a BBC competition that launched countless careers in British audio drama. Her path into games began in the mid-2000s with Rule of Rose (2006), where she voiced the unsettling Amanda. From there, her relationship with FromSoftware became one of the most sustained collaborations in British voice acting. She voiced Maiden Astraea in both the original Demon’s Souls (2009) and its 2020 remake, then brought Gwynevere and Priscilla to life in Dark Souls (2011), Alsanna in Dark Souls II (2015), and carried that lineage all the way into Elden Ring (2022), where she played Irina, Hyetta, and Aureliette – a streak that makes her among the most recurring performers across the entire Souls catalogue.

The Audie Award and a Career in Audio Storytelling

Radio and audiobooks form the backbone of Corbett’s output. Over 300 radio plays include work alongside Tom Hardy and Andrew Garfield in Audible’s production of 1984, and a lead role in BBC Radio 4’s Keeping the Wolf Out, for which she received a 2017 BBC Audio Drama Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her audiobook work earned national recognition when her narration of The Girl on the Train took the 2016 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year – a major industry honor. The same instinct for character that makes her narrations distinctive carries directly into her game work. In It Takes Two (2021), she played Rose, a role tied to a BAFTA-winning title. Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023) brought her two of her most discussed characters: Kagha, the morally complex Archdruid second-in-command, and the shapeshifting Us, a mindflayer tadpole with a peculiar warmth.

Stage, Screen, and the Full Range

On British television, Corbett has appeared across Casualty, Holby City, EastEnders, Emmerdale, and the ITV drama The Hunt for Raoul Moat (2023). Her stage work draws heavily on classical texts – she has taken roles in Twelfth Night, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth with Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, and played Lady Capulet in Antic Disposition’s Romeo and Juliet. Beyond the Souls series, her game credits span Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017), Dying Light 2: Stay Human (2022), Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla (2020), Star Wars Outlaws, and Cronos: The New Dawn (2025). With over 35 major game titles on record and hundreds of audiobooks narrated, her career sits at a rare intersection of literary audio performance and AAA game voice work – two disciplines that rarely share the same practitioner at such depth.