Ellen Dubin’s Biography

Born in Toronto, the award-winning multi-nominated Ellen Dubin has enjoyed a highly unique and diverse career as an actor. She began her career as a ballet dancer, and then performed in the theater doing a wide variety of characters – from Shakespeare to musicals to drama to farce. Her penchant for landing bizarre and fascinating roles led to Ellen becoming a cult figure in the science fiction world. The statuesque powerhouse achieved her cult status over four seasons as four separate characters in the international hit series Lexx – starting with the alien cannibal, Giggerota the Wicked, and culminating with Pope Genevieve, the only female Pope in sci-fi history.

Ellen was nominated for a Gemini Award for her series lead role as Jeri on the Leo award-winning supernatural drama series, The Collector. She has repeatedly excelled as a comedic actor, most notably in her role as the Tupperware loving mom in the iconic Napoleon Dynamite. Ellen’s affinity for the unusual has also led her to starring roles in: Mary Kills People, The Listener, The Dead Zone, Earth: Final Conflict, Blood Ties, Dead Before Dawn, Murdoch Mysteries, Mutant X, A Wrinkle In Time and Highlander: The Raven, where she had a broad-to-broad broadsword fight. She loved working with Roland Emmerich on the WWII blockbuster Midway and is thrilled to be in the number one movie in the world, Dune, voicing the Bene Gesserit Ancestors.

In the video game world, Ellen voiced characters for Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Star Wars Uprising, Fallout 4 with a BTVA win, Elder Scrolls Online, Skyforge, Astria Ascending, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, Defense Grid: 2, World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, Eternal, Magic, Agents of Mayhem, Murdered: Soul Suspect, Wasteland 2 and Wasteland 3, and Star Trek Online. She is honored to have narrated the highly acclaimed California Adventure Park attraction The World of Color, World of Color: Winter Dreams and The World of Color: Christmas Show. She is proud to be the current voice of Disneyland’s 60th Anniversary Fireworks Spectacle as well as the 25th Anniversary Voice of Disneyland Paris and the voice model for Disney Shanghai and Tokyo.

Her role as Captain Phasma aired on Disney XD in the Emmy-nominated Star Wars Resistance, and the Lego: Star Wars animated TV specials. She has recurring roles on PBS’ Elinor Wonders Why and Cartoon Network’s Bakugan: Armored Alliance. She voiced a guest lead in the number one interactive true crime podcast SOLVE with a SOVAS nomination as Outstanding Voice Over in Storytelling and dubbed leads in Netflix’s The Bonfire of Destiny, Dias de Navidad, Rising High and Crimes that Bind.

Her guest star role on the animated version of Adam Ruins Everything earned her an Outstanding Animation Performance Nomination at the Voice Arts Awards. She was also nominated for a SOVAS as Best Voice Over in a Video Game as the Oracle Herida in Skyforge and Best Narration.

She is a member of Women in Film and Television, Women in Animation, International Animated Film Society, SOVAS and the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television. She is a regular guest at the San Diego Comic Con, judging the Animation Awards, the Annie’s in Los Angeles, and was a judge on Syfy’s Heroes of Cosplay, and a judge in the upcoming Ms Wheelchair USA and the Vaughan Film Festival.