Minella's first major voice role in a video game was for Her Interactive's adventure-mystery series Nancy Drew, starring as the titular character Nancy Drew, debuting with 1998's Secrets Can Kill. She shortly got him a telephone interview with the game's creator, George Broussard, and eventually got him the part of Duke. After being impressed by her voices, Jon imitated the voices back at Minella and she asked if he had ever done voice acting for video games. She met Jon when she was cast as the voice for a commercial he was producing in San Diego. She helped cast the voice actor of Duke Nukem, Jon St. In 1996, Minella worked on a major first-person shooter video game, Duke Nukem 3D, as voice director and actress, voicing most of the female characters in the series. This led her to start her AudioGodz, a production company specializing in all aspects of voiceovers from talent to casting, directing, writing and production, in 1992. Minella asked the company if there were others doing similar work, and they suggested that she should go to trade shows, which led her to attend showcases like Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Game Developers Conference in San Jose, and Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, where she gave out business cards but failed to get any offers. She was then referred by the company to their CD-Roms division, where she worked on more voices and assisted script writing on games for children. After hearing her celebrity impersonations, GTE Interactive Media contacted her and asked her to imitate voices from the movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest, which was being pitched for a LaserDisc presentation to Magnavox and Philips. After college, Minella started on Morning Drive radio for an alternative station in the late 1980s.
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