Billie Eilish’s mum, Maggie Baird, is in fact a voice actor, playing characters in both Mass Effect and Saints Row, that you may have grown to love if you owned a console.
Grammy award-winning singer Billie Eilish seems to come from a rather talented family, but did you have any idea who her mum is? Yep, Billie Eilish’s mum Maggie Baird is not just a video game voice actor, but she’s been in many video games that you may in fact recognise.
This was brought to light after a tweet from Guild Wars 2 composer Maclaine Diemer went viral that mentioned Billie Eilish’s mum, whose name is Maggie Baird, plays Samara in Mass Effect 2 and 3.
Samara is the blue-skinned Asari Justicar who you can have as a squadmate and also romance, so long as you veer on the paragon side of morality. So that might mean you romanced Billie Eilish’s mum in Mass Effect. Try not to think about it too much.
Maggie Baird is primarily an actor for film and television, having appeared in the likes of The X-Files, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bones, and even everyone’s favourite book-to-film adaptation, Eragon. She also wrote, co-produced, and made the soundtrack for the 2013 film Life Inside Out.
But Baird has also been a voice actor for games since at least 1999 when she played a role in the hybrid tank/FPS game Battlezone II: Combat Commander. Since then, she’s played Anezka in Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption, Amni Rhyza in Rogue Squadron, and been a voice in EverQuest II.
Check out some of her voice acting for Samara in this compilation clip.
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In recent Billie Eilish news, the young singer has recently called out modern-day rappers for lying in their songs.
“There are tons of songs where people are just lying. There’s a lot of that in rap right now, from people that I know who rap. It’s like, ‘I got my AK-47, and I’m fuckin’,’ and I’m like, what? You don’t have a gun. ‘And all my bitches…’ I’m like, which bitches? That’s posturing, and that’s not what I’m doing,” she said in a recent interview.
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