Susan Silo

Susan Silo was born in New York City. Both her parents were actors Jon Silo and Ruth Silo.^{[1][3][4][5][6]}

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.^[7][8]

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.^[9]

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.^[10]

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.^[11]

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.^[12]

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.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}

Silo was married to actor Burr DeBenning, who died in 2003. They have two sons together.^[18] Later she married Michael Irwin Nave.^[1]

• Digimon Data Squad – Grandma Norstein (ep. 42)
• Zatch Bell! – Zofis (Milordo-Z)

• 2 Stupid Dogs – Additional voices
• Avatar: The Last Airbender – Fisherman's Wife (Ep.12)
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series – Fang
• Back at the Barnyard – Old Woman, Old Lady, Aunt Suki
• Biker Mice from Mars (2006) – Dr. Karbunkle, Native #2, Alien #1, additional voices
• Blaze and the Monster Machines – Granny Car 1, Granny Car 2, Grammy (Episode: "Rocket Ski Rescue" and "Race Car Superstar")
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers – Additional voices
• CB Bears – Zelda the Ostrich
• ChalkZone – Stinky Witch, Ladybug (Episode: "Insect Aside")
• Channel Umptee-3 – Polly
• Curious George – Nettie Pisghetti, Marie Curie, Veterinarian, Queen, Elicee, Baby
• Daisy-Head Mayzie – Ms. Sneetcher
• Darkwing Duck – Neptunia
• Droopy, Master Detective – Additional voices
• El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera – Sartana of the Dead
• Fievel's American Tails – Mama Mousekewitz
• Foofur – Mrs. Escrow
• Garfield and Friends – Additional voices
• Inhumanoids – Sandra Shore
• James Bond Jr. – Miss Fortune, Phoebe Farragut
• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks – Miss Nanny
• Jumanji – Additional voices
• Kidd Video – She-Lion
• Kissyfur – Ralph Packrat
• Niko and the Sword of Light – Dolphin Queen, Shrimp Trooper
• Ozzy & Drix – Cryo
• Pac-Man – Sue
• Pryde of the X-Men – White Queen
• Richie Rich – Mrs. Regina Rich
• Ring Raiders – Siren
• Robot Chicken – Dorothy Zbornak, Louis' Sister, Girl (Ep. "Cracked China")
• Robotix – Compucore, Narra
• Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire – Additional Voices
• TaleSpin – Airplane Jane, Girl with Map, Mary Lamb
• Tarantula – Additional Voices (Ep. "Pajattery")
• The Addams Family – Mrs. Quaint (in "Dead and Breakfast")
• The Garfield Show – Neferkitty, Metalla
• The Legend of Korra – Yin
• The Legend of Prince Valiant – Barbarian's Mother
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee – Auntie Roon, additional voices
• The Mask: The Animated Series – Selina Swint
• The Pink Panther – Additional voices
• The Rocketeer – Irma Philpot, Doris
• The Smurfs – Petaluma
• The Tick – Jet Valkyrie, Jungle Janet
• The Mask: Animated Series – Additional Voices
• The Tom and Jerry Show – Auntie Louella
• The Twisted Adventures of Felix the Cat – Sausages, Mermaid on Bow, Additional voices
• The Wizard of Oz – Munchkin Mayor
• Tom and Jerry Kids – Additional voices
• Toxic Crusaders – Mrs. Junko
• Turbo FAST – Gypsy Moth
• Xiaolin Showdown – Wuya
• Where's Waldo – Additional voices
• W.I.T.C.H. – Miranda Beast, Slug (Season One)
• Zazoo U – Tess

• 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 (1961) (Season 6 Episode 35: "Coming Home") – Angela
• 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")

• Babes in Toyland – Scat
• Beauty and the Beast (1992) – Clara, Evil Fairy
• Bebe's Kids – Ticketlady, Saleswoman, Rodney Rodent, Nuclear Mother, Additional voices
• Dead Silence – Elderly lady, 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
• The Rite – Lady, Additional voices
• Once Upon a Brothers Grimm – Little Red Riding Hood
• Starchaser: The Legend of Orin – Incidental & Background Voices

• 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^[19]
• 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^[20]
• X-Men – White Queen

• Official website
• Susan Silo at IMDb