You’ve no doubt heard Alex Jordan’s voice in a game you’ve played over the past few years, even if you haven’t recognized it. The star of 2025 survival sim The Alters has more than 100 video game credits to his name, many of them background NPCs in addition to his starring roles in Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, various Sherlock Holmes games, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
The role that will surely make you do a double take when browsing his Wikipedia? “Sex noises” in Baldur’s Gate 3.
“That was a weird and wild one. It was brilliant,” Jordan recently told Polygon during a video interview. He recounted the story of how a producer on the game asked if he’d like to be in Baldur’s Gate 3, and he jumped at the chance. “She sent the script through and she said, ‘I'm so sorry.’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’”
Turns out the “script” wasn’t quite a script. “It was just file names for different types of moaning and kissing.”
Jordan was undeterred, and recorded his… lines like a true pro. “I will say this, though. I love this. It's a meme. It's hilarious. [...] I am never going to stop doing small little NPCs and things like that because I'm so lucky to be doing the work that I'm doing.”
That humility was a common theme of Polygon’s conversation with Jordan. Essentially, there’s no role he won’t say no to. “I think in more traditional media, you reach the point where you're doing lead roles and there's the kind of thing of, well, that's your level now. You don't get back down. It's just not the way with video games, and with voice acting, you do the work.”
Jordan’s attitude of going in to “do the work” has led to plenty of roles over the course of his career, which has spanned over a decade. It’s also led to a bit of internalized pressure. “I feel like I am someone who has gone through my career with doing a lot of cool roles and people not realizing they're me, because I went into every game basically with the feeling of, ‘Oh, I have to do a different voice from anything I've done before.’”
Jordan admitted it’s “maybe unrealistic and potentially unhealthy to put that pressure” on himself, and finding completely brand new voices for every single character is an undertaking no one should face.
Amidst the pressure and doubt that comes with acting, at the end of the day, Jordan’s “lucky to be doing the work” that other rising actors “would kill to do.”
“And if that means going in and kissing the back of my hand and making moaning noises, so be it.”