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Violet Berlin
British TV presenter, producer, writer (b. 1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Violet Berlin (born 2 January 1968) is a British television presenter, producer and script writer for films, games and immersive experiences, best known for her pioneering coverage of innovative technology and video games.[2]
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Berlin first appeared on television screens in the 1990s, as a presenter on WildBunch on BBC1 and as writer-presenter for live youth magazine show Cool Cube for BSkyB from 1990 to 1992.[3] On Cool Cube she produced and presented the first regular coverage of computer and video games on British television.[4] She went on to present Bad Influence! between 1992 and 1996, a video gaming series which she hosted with Andy Crane on ITV.[5] As well as presenting from the studio, Berlin covered outside reports in the USA and Japan and wrote and presented her own opinion features as "Virtual Violet".[6]
Berlin then went on the host a number of other terrestrial shows, including live entertainment show Saturday Disney[7] and long running ITV popular science show The Big Bang[8]. On the 30th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 flight in July 1999, along with Jon Snow, she co-hosted the live UK Channel 4 programme Real Time Apollo: One Small Step.[9]
She helped devise branching narrative games[clarification needed] for the BBC and Science Museum,[10] she has written the scripts for large-scale projection-mapped films, including an immersive visual poem for Gardens by the Bay in Singapore[11] and she created the dramatic characters who appear as part of the British Museum's Temple of Amaravati interactive experience in 2018, where visitors summon pilgrims to an ancient Buddhist shrine.[12][13]
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Personal life
Berlin lives in Stoke Newington with her two sons.[14] She sometimes appears on her ex-partner Gareth Jones's motoring podcast Gareth Jones on Speed which celebrated its 400th episode in October 2020.[15] Berlin and Jones have been separated since 2021, with Jones relocating to Wales.[16]
Roles in video games and films
Berlin has cameos in at least five popular video games.[17][not specific enough to verify] She is well known as a playable character in the 1994 Codemasters racing videogame Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament and subsequent sequels, including Micro Machines World Series revived from 2017, and also appears as a non-player character in Gabriel Knight 2 and Normality[18] and as herself in Peter Gabriel's game EVE.[17]
In 2022, Berlin played the role of Queen Isabella of France in an immersive film shown to visitors in the gatehouse when they visit Leeds Castle in Kent.[19][20]
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