It will be a while before we see the fifth and final season of the Netflix megahit ‘Stranger Things’. Since yesterday, fans of Eleven actress Millie Bobby Brown have been treated to a new shooting star adventure: ‘Damsel’.
In the FILMSTARTS review, the “out-of-the-box epic” featured a “strong performance” from the lead actress and a dark, imaginative and exciting chase through a dragon’s cave while the climax received a solid 3 out of 5 possible stars. But have you noticed which star, besides Millie Bobby Brown – and Ray Winstone (“Departed”), Robin Wright (“Wonder Woman”) and Angela Bassett (“Mission: Impossible” series) – is still involved in the fantasy movie movie ? A tip: you had no chance to discover her in the German dubbed version…
Shohreh Aghdashloo voices the dragon in “Damsel”
In ‘Damsel’, Princess Elodie, played by Millie Bobby Brown, must defend herself against a female dragon – which of course comes from the computer. In stark contrast to his voice, which is lent to him by a very prominent actress: Shohreh Aghdashloo. Nothing rings a bell for you? Then we will help you quickly:
The Tehran, Iranian-born actress not only has an Oscar nomination (for her role in the drama ‘House of Sand and Fog’), but has also appeared in a number of Hollywood productions in recent years, both in films and on television. , as an actress and voice actress.
She voiced the Oracle in ‘Percy Jackson: The Spell of the Cyclops’ and Gozer in ‘Ghostbusters: Legacy’, played Commodore Paris in ‘Star Trek Beyond’ and appeared in four episodes of ‘Marvel’s The Punisher’. She was most recently seen in the horror actioner “Renfield” with Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Hoult and in the award-winning series “The Flight Attendant” with “The Big Bang Theory” star Kaley Cuoco. But she is probably best known for her role in ‘The vastness“: In the celebrated sci-fi series hit, which ended in 2022, she was part of the main cast from the first season as Chrisjen Avasarala.
By the way, in the German version you have no chance of finding out who speaks the dragon in the English original. Aghdashloo was not dubbed by its well-known regular speakers; instead, in the German version, Judith Steinhäuser lends her voice to the dragon.