My Favourite Game Cissy Jones

The BAFTA-winning voice actor on changing careers, inclusive storytelling, and playing games without thumbs

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Cissy Jones is a voice actor for videogames. While perhaps best known for her BAFTA-winning role as Delilah in Firewatch, she’s also been cast in Telltale’s The Walking Dead adaptation, the Dishonored series, and Life Is Strange, in which she voiced Chloe Price’s waitress mother, Joyce. A former Silicon Valley operative, here she tells us how she moved from the boardroom to the sound booth.

How did you get into voice acting?

I used to work in corporate in Silicon Valley for ten years – venture capital firms, startup companies – and I hated it. I just always felt like there was something else out there. Then I was listening to the radio one morning and I heard Nancy Cartwright [the voice of Bart Simpson] talking about what a great job voiceover was. She mentioned a nearby school, and I started taking classes that week. Two years later, I was able to get out of corporate!

Did you always intend to work in games specifically?

I’d always been intrigued by cartoons in particular. But the first time I was really aware of voice acting in videogames was watching a cutscene from the first