Jen Taylor (born in Seattle, Washington, USA on February 17, 1973) is a voice actress best known for her role as Cortana in Bungie's sci-fi first person shooter games Halo and Halo 2. She has also voice acted as Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Toad, Toadette and other characters in several Nintendo games from 1999 to 2005, as well as Cate Archer in No One Lives Forever 2 and Jessica Cannon in the episodic FPS SiN Episodes. In 2004 she also appeared in the feature film Inheritance and in the Backyard Sports series. City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... Official language(s) None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area  Ranked 18th  - Total 71,342 sq mi (184,827 km²)  - Width 240 miles (385 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 6. ... February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... Cortana is a fictional artificial intelligence with female programming in the Halo series of video games. ... Bungie Studios is an American video game developer founded in 1991 under the name Bungie Software Products Corporation (more popularly shortened to just Bungie Software) by two undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. ... Sci-fi is an abbreviation for science fiction. ... A first-person shooter (FPS) is a computer or video game where the players on-screen view of the game world simulates that of the character, and there is some element of shooting involved. ... Halo is video game series created by Bungie Studios. ... // Halo 2 is a science fiction first-person shooter developed by Bungie Studios. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Toad ) is a humanoid mushroom in games of Nintendos Mario series. ... Toadette ) is a fictional character in Nintendos Mario series of video games. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cate Archer is the female main character of the videogame No One Lives Forever and its sequel . ... No One Lives Forever, commonly abbreviated NOLF, is the name of a computer game and video game series by Monolith Productions. ... SiN Episodes is the title of a series of episodic games for the PC that expand upon the 1998 computer game SiN, a total of nine episodes are planned. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Backyard Sports is a successful series of video games that play on both consoles and computers. ...

Taylor will not return to voice Cortana in Halo 3, due to Bungie requiring a more "American sounding" voice. Halo 3, the third game in the best-selling Xbox game franchise Halo, is a highly-anticipated first-person shooter video game under development by Bungie Studios for the Xbox 360. ...

External links

• Jen Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
• Bungie's 2002 interview with Jen Taylor