1. Life and career

2. Personal life

3. Filmography
    Television  Film  Video games 

4. Crew work

5. References

6. External links

Susan Maria Blupka (born July 12, 1948), better known as Susan Blu and Sue Blu, is an American voice actress, voice director and casting director in American and Canadian cinema and television. She most notably voiced Arcee in the original Transformers movie and Seasons 3 and 4 of The Transformers (she later reprised the role in Transformers Animated). She is also known for playing the roles of Stormer and Lin-Z Pierce in the 80s animated series Jem.

Life and career

Blu graduated from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri in 1968. Her voice roles include Nanny Smurf on The Smurfs, Judge J.B. McBride on Bravestarr, Jessica Wray, Futura, and Belfry in Ghostbusters, Aimee Brightower in Galaxy High, Kim on Fangface, Hiccup on Little Clowns of Happytown, Lofty, Paradise, and Buttons and other minor characters on My Little Pony, the character Transmutate in the episode of the same name of the series Beast Wars, and one of Petrie's brothers and sisters in The Great Day of the Flyers. She also played Princess PawPaw on Hanna-Barbera's Paw Paws, the Sphinx on Tiny Toon Adventures, and provided the voice of Sibella from the 1988 TV-movie, Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School.

Blu has worked as a voice director for the Ocean Group, a Canadian-based company most notable for providing the voice-actors for Viz Communications and Beast Wars series. She was the voice director for Beast Wars, a prequel (and sequel) of The Transformers, and the sequel, Beast Machines. She was the dialog director on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 TV series and is also the voice director on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 TV series. She was the voice director for Animated and reprised the role of Arcee. She also played the role of Vikki Grimm from the Army Men series. She is also the voice director and voice actor for The Magic School Bus. She worked as voice director for Prime until Season 1, Episode 7, when the death of her wife forced her to turn the position over to Jamie Simone.

Blu's on-screen appearances include an appearance in the 1977 television series Three's Company, an appearance in the television series Knight Rider and the role of Mrs. Shepard in The New Blood. She was going to reprise the role of Arcee in the 2009 sequel Revenge of the Fallen but was replaced by Grey DeLisle.

In 1994, she voiced the Goose Teacher on Precious Moments Simon the Lamb.

Personal life

Blu is openly lesbian. Blu's domestic partner, actress Cynthia Songé, died in Arroyo Grande, California on May 19, 2010.^[1] Prior to her death, both Songé and Blu were the owners of Blupka Productions, Inc., a Los Angeles-based television and film voiceover school. They also both were authors of the industry-related book, Word of Mouth… A Guide to Voiceover Excellence.

In August 2013, Blu married girlfriend Tania Themmen, sister of actor Paris Themmen, in Stamford, Connecticut.^[2]

Filmography

Television

• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters — Additional Voices
• Animal Crack-Ups - Reggie the Heggie
• Bionic Six — Ronnie Gordon
• BraveStarr — Judge J.B. McBride, Molly, Vipra, Commander Karen Kane, Additional Voices
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers — Additional Voices
• Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers — Additional Voices
• Clifford's Puppy Days  - Lewis Sidarsky, Mrs. Solomon
• Droopy, Master Detective — Additional Voices
• DuckTales — Additional Voices
• Extreme Ghostbusters — Additional Voices
• Fangface — Kim
• Fantastic Max — Additional Voices
• Foofur — Dolly
• Filmation's Ghostbusters — Jessica Wray, Futura, Belfry, Additional Voices
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero — Additional Voices
• Galaxy High — Aimee Brightower
• Gravedale High — Additional Voices
• Handy Manny — Marion the Librarian
• Invasion America — Additional Voices
• Jackie Chan Adventures — Additional Voices
• James Bond Jr. — Additional Voices
• Jem — Lin-Z/Lindsay Pierce, Stormer/Mary Phillips
• Jin Jin and the Panda Patrol -Additional Voices
• Lazer Tag Academy — Additional Voices
• Little Clowns of Happytown — Hiccup
• Madeline — Additional Voices
• Monchichis — Additional Voices
• My Little Pony — Buttons, Paradise, Pluma
• New Kids on the Block — Additional Voices
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes — Sibella the Vampire
• Paw Paws — Princess Paw Paw
• Richie Rich — Additional Voices
• The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo — Flim Flam
• The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley — Additional Voices
• The Dukes — Additional Voices
• The Flintstone Kids — Dreamchip Gemstone, Granite Janet
• The Incredible Hulk — Rita, Additional Voices
• The Jetsons — Additional Voices (1985)
• The Land Before Time — Additional Voices
• The Little Rascals — Additional Voices
• The Magic School Bus — Additional Voices (including female producer)
• The New Adventures of Zorro — Additional Voices
• The New Yogi Bear Show — Additional Voices
• The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour — Additional Voices
• The Smurfs — Nanny Smurf, Pansy
• The Tick — Suffra-Jet
• The Transformers — Arcee, Marissa Faireborn
• Tom & Jerry Kids — Additional Voices
• Toxic Crusaders — Additional Voices
• Transformers Animated — Arcee, Flareup
• Knights of the Magical Light — Galadria, Heskedor
• Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? — Additional Voices
• Where's Waldo? – Additional Voices
• Wildfire — Brutus
• Yogi's Treasure Hunt — Additional Voices
• Zorro — Additional Voices

Film

• The Movie (1986) - Arcee (voice)
• My Little Pony: The Movie (1986) - Lofty / Grundle / Bushwoolie #5 (voice)
• Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears (1987) - Snulu (voice)
• Yogi's Great Escape (1987) - Buzzy, Little Cowgirl, Swamp Fox Girl, Swamp Fox Kids (voice)
• Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988) - Sibella the Vampire (voice)
• The Movie (1988) - Judge J.B. McBride (voice)
• The New Blood (1988) - Amanda Shepard
• The Centerville Ghost (1988) - Virginia Otis (voice)
• Deadly Weapon (1989) - Shirley
• The Adventures of Ronald McDonald: McTreasure Island (1990) - Jimmy Hawkins (voice)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) - (voice)
• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (2000) - Grandma Spankenheimer (voice)
• Dreams Come True (2003) - (voice)
• Finding Nemo (2003) - (voice)
• Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004) - (voice)
• Cars (2006) - (voice)
• The Great Day of the Flyers (2006) - Petrie's Siblings (voice)

Video games

• Air Attack 2 — Vikki Grimm
• Air Combat — The Elite Missions — Vikki Grimm, Lt. Felicity "Bombshell" Wannamaker
• Sarge's Heroes — Vikki Grimm
• Sarge's Heroes 2 — Vikki Grimm, Brigitte Bleu
• Portal Runner — Vikki Grimm

Crew work

• A.T.O.M. — Voice Director
• All-New Dennis the Menace — Voice Director
• The Treasure of Manhattan Island — Voice Director
• Wolf Quest — Casting & Voice Director
• Barnyard Commandos — Dialogue Director
• Beast Machines — Voice Director
• Beast Wars — Voice Director
• Omniverse — Casting & Voice Director
• Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot — Voice Director
• Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night — Voice Director
• Butt-Ugly Martians — Voice Director
• Capertown Cops — Voice Director
• The Abominable Snowman — Voice Director
• Clifford the Big Red Dog — Voice Director
• Clifford's Puppy Days  - Voice Director
• Clifford's Really Big Movie — Voice Director
• Chucklewood Critters — Voice Director
• Cyberchase — Voice Director
• Curious George — Casting & Voice Director
• Darkstalkers — Voice Director
• Dennis and Gnasher — Dialogue Director
• Dino Babies — Dialogue Director
• Riders of Berk — Voice Director
• Extreme Ghostbusters — Dialogue Director
• The Series — Dialogue Director
• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer — Voice Director
• Handy Manny — Casting & Voice Director
• The Animated Series — Voice Recording Director
• Invasion America — Casting & Voice Director
• Jackie Chan Adventures — Voice Director
• James Bond Jr. — Voice Director
• Jumanji — Dialogue Director
• The Animated Series — Voice Director
• Legion of Super Heroes  — Casting Director & Voice Director (Season 2)
• Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies — Voice Director
• Max Steel — Dialogue Director
• Maya & Miguel — Voice Director
• The Series — Dialogue Director
• New Kids on the Block — Casting & Voice Director
• Pretty Piggies — Dialogue Director
• Richie Rich — Voice Director
• The Shadow Chronicles — Voice Director
• Aliens, Myths and Legends — Casting & Voice Director
• Skeleton Warriors — Voice Director
• Snow White and the Magic Mirror — Voice Director
• Space Cats — Dialogue Director
• Special Agent Oso — Voice Director
• The New Animated Series — Voice Director
• Brainiac Attacks — Voice Director
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — Casting Services
• Stone Protectors — Voice Director
• Street Fighter — Voice Director
• Call of the Wild — Voice Director
• Surf's Up — Voice Director
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Dialogue Director
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Voice Director (seasons 1-5)
• The Adventures of Corduroy — Voice Director
• The Adventures of Hyperman — Voice Director
• The Adventures of Ronald McDonald: McTreasure Island — Casting & Voice Director
• The California Raisin Show — Dialogue Director
• The Land Before Time — Voice Director
• The Stone of Cold Fire — Voice Director
• The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus — Voice Director
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee — Casting & Voice Director
• The Magic School Bus — Voice Director
• The Animated Series — Dialogue Director
• The New Adventures of He-Man — Voice Director
• The New Adventures of Zorro — Voice Director
• The Night of the Headless Horseman — Voice Director
• The Tick — Voice Director
• The Wish That Changed Christmas — Voice Director
• The Wizard of Oz — Voice Director
• Toxic Crusaders — Voice Director
• Transformers Animated — Voice Director
• Prime — Voice Director (ep. 1-11)
• Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat — Voice Director
• T'was the Day Before Christmas — Voice Director
• Ultimate Book of Spells — Voice Director
• Undercover Conversion Squad — Voice Director
• Where's Waldo? — Casting & Voice Director
• Wing Commander Academy — Casting & Voice Director
• Generation Z — Voice Director

References

External links

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