10 Facts About Violet Berlin

Violet Berlin was born on 2 January 1968 and 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.

Violet Berlin then went on the host a number of other terrestrial shows, including live entertainment show Saturday Disney and long running ITV popular science show The Big Bang.

Violet Berlin is known for producing, writing and hosting video gaming shows including GameSpot TV and Gamepad, which aired on the Bravo satellite channel between 2001 and 2004.

Since 2004 Violet Berlin has been a script writer and experiential storyteller for interactive and immersive experiences for the public, including for museums, cultural and heritage sites.

Violet Berlin helped devise branching narrative games for the BBC and Science Museum, she has written the scripts for large-scale projection-mapped films, including an immersive visual poem for Gardens by the Bay in Singapore 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.

Violet Berlin sometimes appears on her ex-partner Gareth Jones's motoring podcast Gareth Jones on Speed which celebrated its 400th episode in October 2020.

Violet Berlin has cameos in at least five popular video games.

Violet Berlin 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 appears as a non-player character in Gabriel Knight 2 and Normality and as herself in Peter Gabriel's game EVE.

Violet Berlin appeared as the cult leader in a sci-fi movie written by screenwriter Paul Rose.

In 2022, Violet 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.