Madeleine Joan Blaustein (commonly credited as Maddie Blaustein, formerly credited as Addie Blaustein and Adam Blaustein, born October 9, 1960) is a transgender voice actress born in Long Island, New York, United States.
As of 2006, Blaustein is currently 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 is also a comic book writer and artist, having worked for both Marvel Comics and Milestone Comics, and is an animation director as well. Video game localization coordinator and translator Jeremy Blaustein is her brother. Most recently, she served as Creative Director for the recently cancelled Weekly World News.
She is 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.
She has also appeared as Sméagol on the Mike Malloy Show, announcing a presidential bid. http://www.mikemalloy.com/audio/smeagle.mp3
Younger brother is Jeremy Blaustein.
Is the second of 5 children.
Has a twin sister, Gabby.
Supports Hillary Clinton for President.
Plays on the game Second Life under the user-name Kendra Bancroft.
Proud and active socialist, member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
