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Susan Silo

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Susan Silo (born Susan Margolis, July 27, 1942, New York City, New York)1 is an American actress and voice actress with a career spanning more than six decades. She is best known for voicing the recurring villain Wuya in the animated series Xiaolin Showdown and Dr. Karbunkle in Biker Mice from Mars, and has appeared in a wide range of live-action television, animated series, commercials, and video games.2 She contributed guest voice work to both The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters.

Contents

  1. Early life
  2. Career
    1. Live-action television
    2. Voice acting
  3. Ghostbusters
    1. The Real Ghostbusters
    2. Extreme Ghostbusters
  4. Personal life
  5. References
  6. Footnotes

Early life

Susan Silo was born Susan Margolis in New York City in 1942. Both of her parents, Jon Silo and Ruth Silo, were actors, and she grew up in a performing household.1 She adopted the Silo surname professionally. At age 15, on November 5, 1957, she won a nationwide competition over more than 350 other auditioners to perform on The Jerry Lewis Show, one of her earliest public performances.1

View historyLast edited June 14, 2026 by GBFans Staff

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Career

Live-action television

Silo began her on-screen career in the late 1950s and worked steadily in live-action television throughout the 1960s through 1990s. She co-starred in the NBC sitcom Harry's Girls, which followed a vaudeville troupe on tour through Europe, alongside Larry Blyden, Dawn Nickerson, and Diahn Williams.3 She made guest appearances across a broad range of classic American series including McHale's Navy, Route 66, Bonanza, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Sea Hunt, Hazel, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Batman, Gunsmoke, The Love Boat, and L.A. Law.1

Voice acting

Silo transitioned into voice acting with a long-running campaign voicing a talking cow in Land O' Lakes Margarine commercials, a role she held for over ten years.1 She went on to become one of the more prolific voice actresses working in American animation, logging credits with Hanna-Barbera, Disney, Marvel Productions, and DIC Entertainment among others.2

Her best-known animated roles include:

  • Wuya, an evil Heylin witch and one of the principal antagonists in Xiaolin Showdown (Kids WB, 2003-2006)1
  • Dr. Karbunkle, the villainous scientist in Biker Mice from Mars (1993)1
  • White Queen in the Marvel pilot Pryde of the X-Men (1989)1
  • Mama Mousekewitz in Fievel's American Tails (1992)1
  • Sue, the purple ghost in Pac-Man (Hanna-Barbera, 1982)2
  • Zelda the ostrich in the Heyyy, It's the King segment of CB Bears (1977)2
  • She-Lion in Kidd Video (1984)2
  • Skiddoo the Mouse in The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995)2
  • Netti Pisghetti in Curious George (TV series, 2006)1
  • Neferkitty in The Garfield Show (2009-2012)2
  • Yin in The Legend of Korra (2014)1
  • Zofis in the English dub of Zatch Bell!2
  • Roles in The Life and Times of Juniper Lee and Darkwing Duck2

She also provided voice work for video games including Crash Tag Team Racing, Dead Rising, and God of War II.2

In addition to her performance work, Silo teaches voice acting workshops and lectures at events across the United States.1

Ghostbusters

The Real Ghostbusters

Silo made a guest voice appearance in the The Real Ghostbusters episode "Chicken, He Clucked," voicing three characters: the Imp, an Old Woman, and a Librarian.4

Extreme Ghostbusters

Silo returned to the Ghostbusters franchise with a guest voice role in the Extreme Ghostbusters episode Home Is Where The Horror Is (1997).5

Personal life

Silo was married to actor Burr DeBenning in 1966; DeBenning died in 2003. They have two sons together. She later married Michael Irwin Nave in 2010.1

References

Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.

Footnotes

  1. "Susan Silo," Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-13, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Silo. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  2. "Susan Silo," IMDb, accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0798152/. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  3. "Harry's Girls," Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-13, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%27s_Girls. ↩

  4. Spook Central, "The Real Ghostbusters: Chicken, He Clucked," accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.spookcentral.us/sclib/the-real-ghostbusters-chicken-he-clucked. Season 1-Syndicated, Episode 18 (Production #76018), aired October 19, 1987; written by J. Michael Straczynski. Silo voiced the Imp, Old Woman, and Librarian. ↩

  5. IMDb, "Extreme Ghostbusters: Home Is Where the Horror Is" (TV Episode 1997), accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0574531/. ↩

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