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Maddie Blaustein
A middle-aged Caucasian woman with medium-to-short black hair and glasses peers at the camera.
Born
Adam Blaustein

October 9, 1960
Long Island, New York, United States
DiedDecember 11, 2008(2008-12-11) (aged 48)
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Other namesMadeleine Joan Blaustein
Addie Blaustein
Kendra Bancroft
Occupation(s)Voice actress, comic writer
Years active1985–2008
Notable creditPokémon as Meowth
RelativesJeremy Blaustein (brother)

Madeleine Joan Blaustein (born Adam Blaustein, October 9, 1960 – December 11, 2008), also known as Kendra Bancroft, was an American voice actress and comic 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 five children in Long Island, New York. She was intersex, and was assigned male at birth before transitioning to female.[8] Her experience as an activist in the transgender community helped her to organize and support groups of people in Second Life.[9]

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

Death

Blaustein died on December 11, 2008 in Jersey City, New Jersey from an untreated stomach virus that she had been suffering from a couple of weeks prior.[4][10] She is buried at the Congregation B'nai Israel Cemetery.

Work

Voice roles

Video games

Writing

  • 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

References

  1. ^ http://qawithmaddieblaustein.blogspot.com
  2. ^ a b c "Madeleine S. Blaustein - 'Adam S. Blaustein' - Comic Book DB". www.comicbookdb.com. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
  3. ^ a b "GCD :: Issue :: Power Pachyderms #1". Comics.org. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  4. ^ a b Levesley, David (February 27, 2019). "The Inspiring Story of the Trans Actress Behind Your Favorite Pokémon's Voice". them. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  5. ^ "Ask Maddie Blaustein - Q&A with Meowth". www.serebiiforums.com. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  6. ^ Smeagle.mp3 Archived December 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "New World Notes". Nwn.blogs.com. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  8. ^ "Workshop Presenter Bios". William Patterson University Women's Center. Archived from the original on September 28, 2005.
  9. ^ Greenberger, Robert (2008-12-18). "Maddie Blaustein, 1960-2008". ComicMix. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
  10. ^ "United States Social Security Death Index". Familysearch.org. Retrieved 21 February 2013. Adam Blaustein, 11 December 2008; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing)
  11. ^ a b c d e https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Maddie-Blaustein/
  12. ^ Game credits
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