Maddie Blaustein Biography

Madeleine Joan "Maddie" Blaustein (formerly credited as Addie Blaustein; October 9, 1960 - December 13, 2008) was an American voice actress. She was known for her voice acting work for 4Kids Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video and NYAV Post.

Early life

Blaustein was born the second oldest of 5 children in Long Island, New York. She was intersex, and was born as a male. She lived as male for many years before transitioning to female. Her experience as an activist in the transgender community helped her to organize and support groups of people in Second Life.

Career

Until her death she was a voice actress at 4Kids Entertainment who was known for voicing Sartorius in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. She was also best known as the voices of Meowth in Pokmon (Episodes 29-Season 8) and Solomon Muto (Sugoroku Mutou) from Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime. She was also Chef Kawasaki from Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, Doctor Kureha in One Piece, and Arngrim, Lawfer, and Lezard in Valkyrie Profile and she was also the third English-speaking voice actor for E-123 Omega of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. She was also a comic book writer and artist, having worked for both Marvel Comics and Milestone Comics, and an animation director. Later she served as Creative Director for the Weekly World News. Video-game localization coordinator and translator Jeremy Blaustein is her brother.

She is notable for her great variety of voices. Like in Valkyrie Profile, for example, she was able to perform a very "tough", deep masculine voice (Arngrim), as well as a high-class one (Lawfer) and a suitable and somewhat androgynous voice of a mad scientist/sorcerer (Lezard Valeth). During the 2004 Democratic Party primaries, she appeared as Smagol on the Mike Malloy Show, announcing a satirical presidential bid.

Under the pseudonym "Kendra Bancroft"?, Blaustein was one of the content creators in the Second Life platform, where she was a very eager participant since 2004, and earned a reputation as an innovative, competent, and very reliable 3-D modeller in the many communities where she participated.

Blaustein died on December 13, 2008 at the Hospital of Jersey City, New Jersey from an untreated stomach virus that she had suffered from since Thanksgiving.

Works

Voice roles

• Cubix - Dr. K, The Mayor
• Cutie Honey (live action movie) - Sister Jill
• Dinosaur King - Helga (Season 1)
• Domain of Murder - Detective Shimizu
• G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 - Overkill
• Huntik: Secrets & Seekers - Rassimov
• Impy's Island - Shoe the Shoebill
• Impy's Wonderland - Shoe the Shoebill
• Kirby: Right Back At Ya! - Chef Kawasaki, Waddle Doo
• Mutant Rampage Bodyslam - L. Wolf Jam
• Pokmon - Meowth (after Matthew Sussman credited as Nathan Price), Corphish, Torkoal and Farfetch'd (Seasons 1-8), Lieutenant Surge, Damian, additional voices
  • Pokmon Chronicles - Meowth
  • Pokmon: The First Movie - Meowth
  • Pokmon: The Movie 2000 - Meowth
  • Pokmon 3: The Movie - Meowth
  • Pokmon: Mewtwo Returns - Meowth
  • Pokmon 4Ever - Meowth
  • Pokmon Heroes - Meowth
  • Pokmon: Jirachi Wish Maker - Meowth
  • Pokmon: Destiny Deoxys - Meowth
  • Pokmon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew - Meowth
  • Pokmon Mystery Dungeon : Explorers of Time and Darkness Special - Chatot
• Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy - Wally Tusket, Mrs. Tusket, Dorothy Tusket, Comrade Turbinski, Lord Flash/Warsman
• One Piece - Dr. Kureha (4Kids dub)
• Samurai Deeper Kyo - Migeira
• Shadow Hearts - Li Zhuzhen, Colonel Hyuga
• Sonic the Hedgehog series
  • Shadow the Hedgehog - The President
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games - E-123 Omega
• Slayers Try - Jillas Jillos Jilles
• The Little Panda Fighter - Grizzlepuss
• Valkyrie Profile - Arngrim, Barbarossa, Lawfer, Lezard Valeth
• Viva Piata - Corinna
• Wild Cardz - King
• Yu-Gi-Oh! - Solomon Muto (Yugi's Grandfather)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Sartorious (Season 2 only)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's - Rex Goodwin (ep. 2-14) (succeeded by Oliver Wyman)

Writing credits

• Deathwish - Milestone Comics, 4-issue miniseries with Yves Fezzani
• Hardware - Milestone Comics, The Hunt for Deathwish with Yves Fezzani
• Static - Milestone Comics, with Yves Fezzani

Art credits

• Power Pachyderms - Marvel Comics