Dalia Rooni

Dalia Rooni’s Path from Stage to the Booth

Middle Eastern-American by heritage and NYU-trained by foundation, Dalia Rooni built her career at the intersection of live performance, independent filmmaking, and voice work. With a background in Groundlings Improv and sketch writing at the Upright Citizens Brigade, her comedic instincts developed alongside a gift for grounded dramatic performance a combination that has carried naturally into the recording booth.

On screen, Rooni has accumulated credits across genre television and film: the Amazon Prime reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025), the procedural drama Code 3 (2025), and the festival-circuit feature Same Same But Different, which premiered at SXSW 2026. Her earlier independent work, including the short film A Dance of Lust and Calculus – which debuted at San Diego Comic-Con – showcased her as a writer and producer, not just a performer.

Game Credits and the Voice Work

Rooni’s most recognized voice role to date came through Turtle Rock Studios’ Back 4 Blood (2022), where she voiced Tala Yazdi, a sharp-tongued teenage Cleaner introduced in the River of Blood expansion. The casting carried an added layer of authenticity: like Rooni herself, Tala has Iranian heritage, and the character’s voice brought that specificity to what could have been a generic action-game slot.

In 2025, she added Nastya to her credits in Dune: Awakening, Funcom’s survival MMO set in the Arrakis universe. The following year, Marvel’s fighting game Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls cast her as Kamala Khan, better known as Ms. Marvel a South Asian-American superhero whose cultural background aligned with the kind of character Rooni has been drawn to throughout her career.

As a Third Culture Kid navigating Iranian and American identities, Rooni has spoken about her desire to tell stories that reflect what she calls the “uncomfortably hilarious experience” of multicultural upbringing. That ethos runs through both her on-camera and voice work – a consistency that distinguishes her across formats.