In the 1996 adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, who is the actor that starts it off? Carmen Sandiago?

At the beginning of the movie she says the lines called Chorus Lines, the first ones of the play. Like "In the fair city of Verona, Where we lay our scene"....etc. She looks quite similar to the lady that played the Chief in the Carmen Sandiego Video Game. Who are these two actors, or are they the same person as I seem to believe, and have a feeling they are?