Madeleine Joan Blaustein (commonly credited as Maddie Blaustein, formerly credited as Addie Blaustein and Adam Blaustein) (October 9, 1960 - December 11, 2008) was a transgender voice actress born in Long Island, New York, United States.
Blaustein was, until her death, the voice of Sartorius in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. She was also most known as the voices of Meowth in Pokémon (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!, Dr. Kureha in One Piece and Arngrim, Lawfer and Lezard in Valkyrie Profile. She was also a comic book writer and artist, having worked for both Marvel Comics<1> and Milestone Comics, and an animation director. Most recently, she served as Creative Director for the recently cancelled Weekly World News. Video game localization coordinator and translator Jeremy Blaustein is her brother.
She provided the voice of Margarete in the English language version of the PlayStation 2 game Shadow Hearts. Most notable is her great variety of voices. 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). In Shadow Hearts, Margarete is voiced in a deep, feminine, and seductive style. During the 2004 Democratic Party primaries, she appeared as Sméagol on the Mike Malloy Show, announcing a satirical presidential bid.<2> She was also the most recent voice actor for E-123 Omega of the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
Under the pseudonym Kendra Bancroft, Maddie was one of the most talented and accomplished 3D 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 3D modeller in the many communities where she participated. Her experience as an activist in the transgendered community helped her out to organise and support groups of people in Second Life.
On December 11, 2008, Maddie Blaustein died in her sleep after a short illness. She was 48.<3>
Her final role will be The Toucans in Animalia, as part of the rumor. She might have practiced voicing them before her death. Graeme Base (the author of Animalia) would say "I'm concerned about The Toucans. This will be final role for Maddie Blaustein. She died on December 11th. Everyone at 4Kids Entertainment are going to miss her." If The Toucans will still appear for the rest of the TV show, she would be replaced by Kevin Kolack.
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