Kiyoko Miyazawa
Description
Kiyoko Miyazawa is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with the talent agency Kenyu Office. She was born on April 6 in Tokyo, though her birth year is not publicly disclosed.
Miyazawa's path to voice acting is notable for beginning after a lengthy first career. She is a former junior high and high school Japanese language teacher, having worked in education for approximately thirty years. After retiring from teaching, she made her debut as a voice actor around the age of sixty. Her vocal range is classified as mezzo-soprano.
In her voice acting career, Miyazawa is frequently cast in roles that reflect her natural vocal qualities and life experience, often portraying elderly women, grandmothers, and mothers. She began landing roles in television anime in 2009, with early credits including the character Fumi's Grandmother in the series Sweet Blue Flowers and a role in The Book of Bantorra.
She has since built an extensive list of credits across anime, video games, and dubbed foreign media. In anime, her notable roles include the grandmother of Hibiki Tachibana in the Symphogear series, the grandmother of the character Megumi Tadokoro in Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Michitsukasa in Noragami Aragoto, and Mari Iwai in Plastic Memories. She also played the character Tsune in the long-running children's anime series Wasimo. Her film work includes a role in the award-winning animated film The Anthem of the Heart.
Beyond original animation, Miyazawa is active in the field of audio dubbing for foreign films and television series. She has provided the Japanese voice for characters in a wide range of international productions, such as the role of Snickers in the film The One and Only Ivan, Elise Rainier in the Insidious film series, and various characters in television series like Orange Is the New Black and Gilmore Girls.
Miyazawa has also lent her voice to numerous video games, including roles as Ourely Bruch in Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey and as Claire Reynolds in Life Is Strange 2.
Miyazawa's path to voice acting is notable for beginning after a lengthy first career. She is a former junior high and high school Japanese language teacher, having worked in education for approximately thirty years. After retiring from teaching, she made her debut as a voice actor around the age of sixty. Her vocal range is classified as mezzo-soprano.
In her voice acting career, Miyazawa is frequently cast in roles that reflect her natural vocal qualities and life experience, often portraying elderly women, grandmothers, and mothers. She began landing roles in television anime in 2009, with early credits including the character Fumi's Grandmother in the series Sweet Blue Flowers and a role in The Book of Bantorra.
She has since built an extensive list of credits across anime, video games, and dubbed foreign media. In anime, her notable roles include the grandmother of Hibiki Tachibana in the Symphogear series, the grandmother of the character Megumi Tadokoro in Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Michitsukasa in Noragami Aragoto, and Mari Iwai in Plastic Memories. She also played the character Tsune in the long-running children's anime series Wasimo. Her film work includes a role in the award-winning animated film The Anthem of the Heart.
Beyond original animation, Miyazawa is active in the field of audio dubbing for foreign films and television series. She has provided the Japanese voice for characters in a wide range of international productions, such as the role of Snickers in the film The One and Only Ivan, Elise Rainier in the Insidious film series, and various characters in television series like Orange Is the New Black and Gilmore Girls.
Miyazawa has also lent her voice to numerous video games, including roles as Ourely Bruch in Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey and as Claire Reynolds in Life Is Strange 2.