Linda Gunderson is Blu's former owner and best friend. She formerly lived and worked in her own bookstore Blue Macaw Books in Moose Lake, Minnesota, and now lives and works in the Livraria Blu book store in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and later works at the Blu Bird Sanctuary, where she's happily married to her sweetheart, Tulio. She is a supporting protagonist in Rio and Rio 2. The adult Linda is voiced by Leslie Mann, while Carlos Saldanha's daughter, Sofia Scarpa Saldanha, voices the younger Linda.