Susan Blu

Susan Blu
Born	Susan Maria Blupka (1948-07-12) July 12, 1948 Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Other names	Sue Blu
Occupation	Voice actress, director, casting director
Years active	1968–present
Spouse(s)	Cynthia Songé (????–2010) Tania Themmen (m. 2013)

Susan Maria Blu (born July 12, 1948), sometimes credited as 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 Land Before Time XII: 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 is the 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 Transformers: 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 Transformers: 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 Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. She was going to reprise the role of Arcee in the 2009 sequel Transformers: 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's wife, actress Cynthia Songé, died in Arroyo Grande, California on May 19, 2010. Prior to her death, both Songe 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

Filmography

Television

• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters — Additional Voices
• Bionic Six — Ronnie Gordon
• BraveStarr — Judge J.B
• 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
• Filmation's Ghostbusters — 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
• 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 -
• Transformers Animated — Arcee, Flareup
• Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light — Galadria, Heskedor
• Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? — Additional Voices
• Wildfire — Brutus
• Yogi's Treasure Hunt — Additional Voices
• Zorro — Additional Voices

Film

• Cars — Additional Voices
• Clifford's Really Big Movie — Additional Voices
• Finding Nemo — Additional Voices
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood — Amanda Shepard
• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer — Grandma Spankenheimer
• My Little Pony: The Movie - Lofty, Grundle, Bushwoolie
• Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School — Sibella the Vampire
• The Centerville Ghost — Virginia Otis
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Esmeralda
• The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers — Petrie's Siblings
• The Transformers: The Movie — Arcee
• Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears — Snulu
• Yogi's Great Escape — Buzzy, Little Cowgirl, Swamp Fox Girl, Swamp Fox Kids

Video Games

• Army Men: Air Attack 2 — Vikki
• Army Men: Air Combat — The Elite Missions — Vikki
• Army Men: Sarge's Heroes — Vikki
• Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2 — Vikki
• Portal Runner — Vikki

Crew Work

• A.T.O.M. — Voice Director
• All-New Dennis the Menace — Voice Director
• An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island — Voice Director
• Beast Machines — Voice Director
• Beast Wars — Voice Director
• Ben 10: Omniverse — Casting & Voice Director
• Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman — Voice Director
• Clifford the Big Red Dog — Voice Director
• Clifford's Really Big Movie — Voice Director
• Chucklewood Critters — Voice Director
• Cyberchase — Voice Director
• Curious George — Casting & Voice Director
• Dragons: Riders of Berk — Voice Director
• Extreme Ghostbusters — Dialogue Director
• Godzilla: The Series — Dialogue Director
• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer — Voice Director
• Handy Manny — Casting & Voice Director
• Invasion America — Voice Director
• Jackie Chan Adventures — Voice Director
• James Bond Jr. — Voice Director
• Jumanji — Dialogue Director
• Legion of Super Heroes — Voice Director
• Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies — Voice Director
• Max Steel — Dialogue Director
• Maya & Miguel — Voice Director
• Men in Black: The Series — Dialogue Director
• Richie Rich — Voice Director
• Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles — Voice Director
• Skeleton Warriors — Voice Director
• Special Agent Oso — Voice Director
• Spider-Man: The New Animated Series — Voice Director
• Superman: Brainiac Attacks — Voice Director
• Street Fighter — Voice Director
• Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild — Voice Director
• Surf's Up — Voice Director
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Dialogue Director
• The Land Before Time — Voice Director
• The Land Before Time VII: 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 Mummy: 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 Wizard of Oz — Voice Director
• Toxic Crusaders — Voice Director
• Transformers Animated — Voice Director
• Transformers: Prime — Voice Director (ep. 1-11)
• Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat — Voice Director
• Where's Waldo? — Voice Director
• Zorro: Generation Z — Voice Director

External links

• www.blupka.com — official site
• Susan Blu at the Internet Movie Database
• Susan Blu at AllMovie