A VOICEOVER artist from Altrincham is starring in a new blockbuster with Hollywood A-listers Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, the $120million science fiction thriller, Passengers.

Emma is the voice of the film’s spaceship, The Starship Avalon, a damaged vessel that is floundering through space and venturing into uncertain territory.

This is Clarke’s biggest voicing role to date; one that hears her share the big screen with a stellar cast that also includes Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne and Andy Garcia.

Speaking about being chosen for the role, Emma said: “Sony Pictures filled in the contact form on my website and asked me to try out for the role. When I saw it, I could hardly believe my eyes, The director was familiar with my voice and said he was keen for me to try out. I was over the moon. Once I sent in my audition there was an agonising wait while the decision was made. And when I was eventually told I’d got the part – well, I was overjoyed.”

“My family and friends are chuffed to bits about my news, and they are particularly interested to know what my A-list co-stars were like to work with; but as a voiceover, I only saw the inside of a recording booth and didn’t get to meet them.

Emma is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and voiceover. She is also one of the iconic ‘Mind the Gap’ voices on the London Underground.

In Passengers, Pratt's character Jim and Lawrence's Aurora find themselves alone on the passenger ship, after waking up from cryostasis ninety years earlier than intended and being ejected from their sleeping pods. As the mystery of why they woke up early unfolds, the pair face a lifetime aboard the ship together.

Passengers is in cinemas now.