Linsay Rousseau
- Actress
- Producer
Linsay Rousseau is an award winning LA-based actor, voice-over artist and performance capture artist. She is of French, Spanish, Romani, Scottish and Irish descent. A self described queer, Army Iraq War combat veteran and geeky badass. She is best known as the voice of Elita-1 in Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (2020) and for her extensive work in video games, including the Female Player, aka The Captain, in WWE 2K24 (2024), Lockpick in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023) the female player in Fallout 76 (2018), and a variety of characters in God of War: Ragnarök (2022), Rage 2 (2019), Starfield (2023) and Spider-Man 2 (2023). She is winner of the award for best female voice-over in an animated series at the 2021 One Voice Awards for her work as Elita-1. On screen, she has appeared in episodes of NCIS (2003), SEAL Team (2017), General Hospital (1963) and she had all the judges fooled in her appearance on To Tell the Truth (2016). She is a US Army Iraq War combat veteran and holds a masters degree in journalism from the University of California Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and a B.S. in sociology and cultural anthropology from The College of William & Mary. She is a member of The Television Academy, BAFTA and Women in Film, the media affairs director for the National Association of Voice Actors and vice president of QueerVox.
Linsay spent several decades performing on stage before making the transition to voice-over and on-camera work. She has trained at Steppenwolf, the Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre, Studio A.C.T. at the American Conservatory Theater, The Groundlings, The Second City, Impro Studio, the Susan Angelo Shakespeare Studio and the Rachael Adler Studio. She has extensive training in hand-to-hand combat, wushu, muay thai, Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), firearms and military tactics. She is also an accomplished musician and classically trained singer, proficient in a variety of musical styles.
The child of two National Park Rangers, she had a fairly non-traditional upbringing and had lived in six different states by the time she was in high school. With all the moving, it was her involvement in music, theatre, dance and sports that kept her focused and grounded. Perhaps there was something in all that fresh air, because both Linsay and her brother ended up in the entertainment industry. Linsay dove into the world of acting, while her brother Bryant Burnett, has become a successful stuntman and stunt rigger. The environment is never far from her mind. She spends much of her free time under water, as a certified scuba diving instructor, working with several non-profits doing marine debris clean up and coral restoration.
While Linsay has been a performer her entire life, she took a few detours along the way. She is a former investigative reporter with a masters degree in journalism from The University of California's Graduate School of Journalism. She worked as an associate producer, reporter and researcher for Frontline (1983) and was one of four Carnegie Fellows chosen to work with the Brian Ross Investigative Reporting Unit at ABC News in New York. Her masters thesis, Rape in the Fields (2013), went on to be produced by PBS Frontline, the Center for Investigative Reporting and Univision. The documentary has won the Alfred I. duPont-Colombia Award, John F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Public Radio News Directors Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.
Prior to attending Berkeley, she served as a combat photographer/videographer and public affairs sergeant for the U.S. Army's 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. She spent a year in the northern Iraq province of Kirkuk documenting and reporting on combat and humanitarian operations for her unit and was also briefly attached to ODA 183 Special Forces documenting their operations.
Before the Army, when she wasn't on stage or playing music, much of her time was focused on human rights and environmental causes. She worked for Amnesty International, focusing predominantly on women's and LGBTQIA rights. While at William & Mary, as student body president, she lead the charge to reform the campus's sexual assault policy, helped with organizational efforts to unionize the maintenance, cafeteria and housekeeping staff, worked to improve the campus's environmental standards and encouraged the university to divest funds from organizations known for their human right's abuses. While she many not have taken the most direct route to Hollywood, she brings all of this passion and experience to her performances and all the work she does.
Linsay spent several decades performing on stage before making the transition to voice-over and on-camera work. She has trained at Steppenwolf, the Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre, Studio A.C.T. at the American Conservatory Theater, The Groundlings, The Second City, Impro Studio, the Susan Angelo Shakespeare Studio and the Rachael Adler Studio. She has extensive training in hand-to-hand combat, wushu, muay thai, Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), firearms and military tactics. She is also an accomplished musician and classically trained singer, proficient in a variety of musical styles.
The child of two National Park Rangers, she had a fairly non-traditional upbringing and had lived in six different states by the time she was in high school. With all the moving, it was her involvement in music, theatre, dance and sports that kept her focused and grounded. Perhaps there was something in all that fresh air, because both Linsay and her brother ended up in the entertainment industry. Linsay dove into the world of acting, while her brother Bryant Burnett, has become a successful stuntman and stunt rigger. The environment is never far from her mind. She spends much of her free time under water, as a certified scuba diving instructor, working with several non-profits doing marine debris clean up and coral restoration.
While Linsay has been a performer her entire life, she took a few detours along the way. She is a former investigative reporter with a masters degree in journalism from The University of California's Graduate School of Journalism. She worked as an associate producer, reporter and researcher for Frontline (1983) and was one of four Carnegie Fellows chosen to work with the Brian Ross Investigative Reporting Unit at ABC News in New York. Her masters thesis, Rape in the Fields (2013), went on to be produced by PBS Frontline, the Center for Investigative Reporting and Univision. The documentary has won the Alfred I. duPont-Colombia Award, John F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Public Radio News Directors Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.
Prior to attending Berkeley, she served as a combat photographer/videographer and public affairs sergeant for the U.S. Army's 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. She spent a year in the northern Iraq province of Kirkuk documenting and reporting on combat and humanitarian operations for her unit and was also briefly attached to ODA 183 Special Forces documenting their operations.
Before the Army, when she wasn't on stage or playing music, much of her time was focused on human rights and environmental causes. She worked for Amnesty International, focusing predominantly on women's and LGBTQIA rights. While at William & Mary, as student body president, she lead the charge to reform the campus's sexual assault policy, helped with organizational efforts to unionize the maintenance, cafeteria and housekeeping staff, worked to improve the campus's environmental standards and encouraged the university to divest funds from organizations known for their human right's abuses. While she many not have taken the most direct route to Hollywood, she brings all of this passion and experience to her performances and all the work she does.
