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Maddie Blaustein
Born	Adam Blaustein October 9, 1960 Long Island, New York, United States
Died	December 11, 2008(2008-12-11) (aged 48) Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Other names	Madeleine Joan Blaustein Addie Blaustein Kendra Bancroft
Occupation	Voice actress, comics creator
Years active	1985–2008
Notable credit(s)	Pokémon as Meowth

Madeleine Joan Blaustein (born Adam Blaustein, October 9, 1960 – December 11, 2008), also known as Kendra Bancroft, was an American voice actress and comics writer. She was known for her voice acting work for 4Kids Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video and NYAV Post, and for comics written for Milestone Comics. She was the first transgender voice artist for many of her respective agencies.^[1]

Career

In the late 1980s, Blaustein worked for Marvel Comics, as an editor (several issues each of Web of Spider-Man, Marvel Tales, and Marvel Saga) as a writer (several issues of Conan the King), and penciling a one-shot of Power Pachyderms.^[2][3] She wrote assorted comics published by DC Comics in the early 1990s, including a few for the Impact Comics imprint and TSR line.^[2] For Milestone Media, she cowrote with Yves Fezzani several issues each of Hardware and Static, and (credited as Addie Blaustein) the 1994 limited series Deathwish,^[2] whose protagonist was a character created by Blaustein: a transgender female police officer named Marissa Rahm.

She was also an animation director.^{[citation needed]} Later, she served as Creative Director for Weekly World News.^[4]

Blaustein was a voice actress at 4Kids Entertainment, where she worked on the English dub version of the Pokémon anime. She provided "filler" voices for various characters until episode #29, when she was given the role of Meowth, who she played through season 8.^[5] She also voiced Sartorius in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Solomon Muto (Sugoroku Mutou) in the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime. She voiced Chef Kawasaki in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Doctor Kureha in One Piece, and Arngrim, Lawfer, and Lezard in Valkyrie Profile. She performed a wide variety of voices. For example, in Valkyrie Profile, she performed a very "tough" masculine voice (Arngrim), as well as a high-class one (Lawfer), and the somewhat androgynous voice of a mad scientist/sorcerer (Lezard Valeth).^{[citation needed]} During the 2004 Democratic Party primaries, she voiced Sméagol on the Mike Malloy Show, announcing a satirical presidential bid.^[6]

Beginning in 2004 under the pseudonym Kendra Bancroft, Blaustein was a content creator on the Second Life platform, earning a reputation as an innovative, competent, and reliable 3-D modeller in the communities where she participated.^[7]

Personal life

Blaustein was born the second oldest of 5 children in Long Island, New York. Her experience as an activist in the transgender community helped her to organize and support groups of people in Second Life.^[8]

Video-game localization coordinator and translator Jeremy Blaustein is her brother.

Death

Blaustein died on December 11, 2008 at the Hospital of Jersey City, New Jersey^[9] from an untreated stomach virus^[4] that she had suffered from since late November.^[4] The exact nature of her death seems to be unclear, with some sources saying she died in her sleep of a brief illness ^[10]and some sources stating a stomach virus as the cause of death.^[4]

Work

Voice roles

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  Cubix – Dr. K, The Mayor


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  Cutie Honey (live action movie) – Sister Jill


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  Dinosaur King – Helga (Season 1)


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  Domain of Murder – Detective Shimizu


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  Fighting Foodons - King Hungry The Ate, Dia's mother, Burnt Meatballs, Oslo, Spaghetti-About it, Pound Cake, Pudding Pie


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  G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 - Overkill


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  Huntik: Secrets & Seekers – Rassimov^[11]
  


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  Impy's Island – Shoe the Shoebill
  


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  Impy's Wonderland – Shoe the Shoebill


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  Kirby: Right Back At Ya! – Chef Kawasaki, Waddle Doo


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  Mutant Rampage Bodyslam – L. Wolf Jam


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  Pokémon – Meowth, additional voices
  
  
  
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    Pokémon Chronicles – Meowth
  
  
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    Pokémon: The First Movie – Meowth
  
  
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    Pokémon: The Movie 2000 – Meowth
  
  
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    Pokémon 3: The Movie – Meowth
  
  
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    Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns – Meowth
  
  
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    Pokémon 4Ever – Meowth
  
  
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    Pokémon Heroes – Meowth
  
  
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    Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker – Meowth
  
  
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    Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys – Meowth
  
  
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    Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew – Meowth
  
  
  
  


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  Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy – Wally Tusket, Mrs. Tusket, Dorothy Tusket, Comrade Turbinski, Lord Flash/Warsman


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  One Piece – Dr. Kureha (4Kids dub)


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  Samurai Deeper Kyo – Migeira


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  Shadow Hearts – Li Zhuzhen, Colonel Hyuga


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  Slayers Try – Jillas Jillos Jilles


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  The Little Panda Fighter – Grizzlepuss


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  Valkyrie Profile – Arngrim, Barbarossa, Lawfer, Lezard Valeth


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  Viva Piñata – Corinna


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  Wild Cardz - King


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  Yu-Gi-Oh! – Solomon Muto
  
  
  
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    Yu-Gi-Oh! GX – Sartorious (Season 2 only)
  
  
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    Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's – Rex Goodwin (ep. 2-14) (succeeded by Oliver Wyman)
  
  
  
  

Video Games

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  Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) - President^[12]
  


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  Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) - Omega


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  Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum - Solomon Muto


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  Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveler - Solomon Muto

Writing

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  Deathwish – Milestone Comics, 4-issue miniseries, with Yves Fezzani


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  Hardware – Milestone Comics, The Hunt for Deathwish with Yves Fezzani


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  Static – Milestone Comics, with Yves Fezzani

Art

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  Power Pachyderms (pencils) – Marvel Comics (1989)^[3]
  

References

External links

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  Madeleine Blaustein on IMDb


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  Maddie Blaustein at Anime News Network's encyclopedia


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  Interview with Maddie Blaustein from Trans-Ponder


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  Maddie Blaustein at the English Voice Actor & Production Staff Database


• Former Marvel editor Christopher Priest on Blaustein's time at Marvel Comics


• Maddie Blaustein at Find a Grave


• Maddie Blaustein @ BehindTheVoiceActors