Kerri Hoskins, the original mocap actor for Sonya Blade!
No martial arts background, no athletic pedigree, just somehow convincing as a cheerleader or a soldier, which got her tapped by Midway for a string of digitized sprite gigs:
NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat, and then the black sheep,
Revolution X, the Aerosmith licensed game.
I played it at the bowling alley a lot, probably more than anyone else, but it flopped hard so many people never
fapped to it saw it. The plot is insane even for a tie-in: rock and roll outlawed, Aerosmith jailed by the NWO, the NWO leader is some Bri'ish bird?
And just when you suspend your belief, she turns out to be an alien.
Kerri’s great as a
Battletoads-style bad bitch, yelling at you on game-over screens and monitors in a bad Cockney accent.
She still does meet-and-greets for old-school MK fans and talks about how she regrets being replaced by 3D models. Voice actors have fans too...but she’s right in the sense that her Sonya is definitive. Tricia Helfer came close to bringing back that classic feel.
More trivia: Sonya was based on those Cynthia Rothrock characters, which meant she had to throw devastating high kicks. She couldn’t reach Rothrock levels (she admits she bluffed her way through rehearsals) but thanks to a rare genetic defect she was unnaturally limber.
She only realized something was wrong with her muscles after delivering twin boys prematurely. Between their nonstop medical needs and her own health issues she had to bow out of modeling, but she can still fit into the Sonya Blade costume.