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Susan Silo
Born
(1942-07-27) July 27, 1942 (age 81)

New York City, U.S.
Other names Susie Silo
Occupation Actress
Years active 1960–present
Agent Cunningham, Escott, Slevin, Doherty
Known for Xiaolin Showdown
Harry's Girls
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
Spouse(s) Burr DeBenning

Susan Silo (born July 27, 1942) is an American actress who is known for her work in voice-over roles.

Early life

Susan Silo was born in New York City. Both her parents were actors.

Career

Her acting career started in television on the episode "The Dick Clark Show" of The Jack Benny Show. Silo co-starred with Larry Blyden, Dawn Nickerson, and Diahn Williams in the NBC sitcom Harry's Girls, about a vaudeville troupe touring Europe.

Her first TV appearance was when she entered and won a contest over 350 people who auditioned across the US, at age 15, to sing (Mr. Wonderful) on The Jerry Lewis Show on November 5, 1957. She also made guest appearances in episodes of numerous TV series from the 1960s to the 1990s, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Hawaiian Eye, McHale's Navy, Route 66, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Have Gun Will Travel, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Sea Hunt, Ripcord, Hazel, Combat!, Batman, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Love Boat, L.A. Law and The Wild Wild West. In 1964, Silo appeared in an episode of Jack Palance's The Greatest Show on Earth. She also played Rita Lane on Gunsmoke in 1969.

Susan Silo is a successful voice actress, and she teaches workshops in this field and lectures all over the country. She is also a successful singer, which she has brought to her work in cartoons. Silo began her voice-acting career as a talking cow in a series of Land O' Lakes Margarine commercials for over ten years. In addition, she has done animated cartoon voices for Hanna-Barbera, Marvel, Disney, Ruby-Spears, DIC, Film Roman, Murakami Wolf Swenson and many others.

Her famous roles are Wuya the Witch in Xiaolin Showdown, Sartana of the Dead in El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Dr Karbunkle in Biker Mice from Mars, White Queen on Pryde of the X-Men, multiple voices on What A Cartoon, Sue on Pac-Man and Tess on Zazoo U. She also played the roles of Mama Mousekewitz in Fievel's American Tails and Petaluma in The Smurfs.

She has also done voices for video games, such as Crash Tag Team Racing and X-Men (arcade game), where she reprised the White Queen. She later voiced Auntie Roon on The Life and Times of Juniper Lee and Flamestrike in Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight in 2008.

In 2009, she guest-starred as the cat empress Neferkitty on The Garfield Show, episode "The Curse of the Cat People" and reprised the character in 2012, in the episode "Revenge of the Cat People". In 2014, Silo played Yin on Nickelodeon's The Legend of Korra.

Personal life

Silo was married to actor Burr DeBenning, who died in 2003.

Filmography

Anime roles

Animated roles

Television roles

  • The Jerry Lewis Show November 5, 1957 as herself
  • The Jack Benny Show – Girl (episode "The Dick Clark Show")
  • The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis – JoAnn (episode "Dobie Goes Beatnik")
  • Ripcord – Suzy Thomas (episode "Airborne")
  • The Ann Sothern Show – April Fleming (episode "Always April")
  • Sea Hunt (1961) – Leilani (episode "Cougar")
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Angela (episode "Coming Home")
  • Miami Undercover – Vicki (episode "Mystery of Swamp")
  • Route 66 – Marva (episode "And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon")
  • The Tall Man – Amy Beckett (episode "Quarantine")
  • Ensign O'Toole – Girl (episode "Operation: Model 'T'")
  • Empire – MacCormack (episode "The Fire Dancer")
  • Hawaiian Eye – Shannon Malloy (episode Shannon Malloy), Lita (episode "Tusitala")
  • Hazel – Gabrielle (episode "Hazel and the Lovebirds")
  • Sam Benedict – Barbara Eddy (episode "Read No Evil")
  • Have Gun – Will Travel – Taymanee (episode "Two Plus One")
  • Wagon Train – Betty Whitaker (episode "The Joe Muharich Story"), Susan (episode "The David Garner Story")
  • The Lieutenant – Marie Eckles (episode "A Very Private Affair")
  • Harry's Girls – Rusty (15 episodes)
  • McHale's Navy – Babette (episode "Babette Go Home")
  • The Greatest Show on Earth – Susan Silver (episode "Love the Giver")
  • Burke's Law – Phoebe McPhee (episode "Who Killed Everybody ?")
  • Combat! – Annice (episode "The Town That Went Away")
  • Bonanza – Elena Miguel (episode "Woman of Fire")
  • The Wild Wild West – Little Willow (episode "The Night of the Double-Edged Knife")
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E. – Anna Paola
  • Dr. Kildare – Angie (3 episodes)
  • Batman – Mousey – (episode 11 and 12 with The Riddler)
  • The John Forsythe Show – Michelina (episode "Engagement, Italian Style")
  • My Three Sons – Janine (episode "Our Boy in Washington")
  • Occasional Wife – Vera Frick (3 episodes)
  • Gunsmoke – Rita Lane (episode "The Long Night")
  • Here Come the Brides – Ada Moon (episode "Next Week, East Lynne")
  • The Love Boat – Yvonne Boulanger (episode "Parlez-Vous")
  • Highway to Heaven – Mrs. Barney (episode "Catch a Falling Star")
  • L.A. Law – Yvette (episode "The Unbearable Lightness of Boring")
  • Night Stand with Dick Dietrick – Mom (episode "The Secret Crush Show")

Film roles

  • Babes in Toyland – Scat
  • Beauty and the Beast (1992) – Clara, Evil Fairy
  • Bebe's Kids – Ticketlady, Saleswoman, Rodney Rodent, Nuclear Mother, Additional voices
  • Foodfight! – Additional voices
  • Jetsons: The Movie – Gertie Furbelow
  • Kiss Toledo Goodbye – Mrs. Beidekker
  • Lilo & Stitch – Police Cruiser Computer, Additional voices
  • Marriage: Year One – Shirley Lemberg
  • McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force – Corporal "Smitty" Smith
  • Once Upon a Forest – Russell's Mom
  • The Ant Bully – Ant #4
  • Once Upon a Brothers Grimm – Little Red Riding Hood
  • Starchaser: The Legend of Orin – Incidental & Background Voices

Video game roles

  • Clive Barker's Jericho – Hanne Lichthammer
  • Crash Tag Team Racing – Mature Woman, Old Woman
  • Crash Twinsanity – Nina Cortex, Madame Amberley
  • Diablo III – Monster Voices
  • Dead Rising – Lindsay Harris
  • Final Fantasy Type-0 HD – Cadetamaster (English version)
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake – Mireille (English version)
  • Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist – Helen Back, Madame Ovaree
  • Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers – Cazaunoux
  • Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned – Madam Girard
  • Giants: Citizen Kabuto – Queen Sappho
  • God of War II – Clotho
  • Guild Wars – Glint, Justiciar Taran
  • Jericho – Hanne Lichthammer
  • The Last of Us – Additional voices
  • Mad Max – Additional voices
  • Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 - Sartana of the Dead
  • Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness – Baba Yaga, Fenris, Olga Stovich, Tatiana the Queen of the Faery Folk
  • The Saboteur – Additional voices
  • Sacrifice – Seerix
  • Tales from the Borderlands – Vallory
  • Tales of Symphonia – Additional voices
  • Undead Knights – Narrator
  • X-Men – White Queen

See also

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