Yoshino Ohtori is a veteran Japanese actress and voice actress born on March 19, 1947, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. She began her career in the 1970s, initially appearing in live-action television dramas before transitioning to voice acting in animation. Early in her career, she was credited under the stage names Yuri Kagawa and Miki Kagawa. Over the decades, she has been affiliated with several talent agencies, including Tokyo Actor's Consumer Cooperative Society, Arts Vision, and Sigma Seven, and is currently represented by Ken Production.

Ohtori has built an extensive and diverse portfolio of voice roles in anime, spanning from the late 1970s to the present day. She is widely recognized for her long-running role as the original voice of Suneo's mother, also known as Mrs. Honekawa, in the classic 1979 Doraemon television series and its accompanying films. Another iconic early role was providing the voice for multiple characters in the landmark series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, including Moruk Laplamiz and Lynn Feichun, a role she reprised in the 1984 film The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?. Her filmography from this era also includes roles in Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) as Colleen and in Space Warrior Baldios (1980) as Dr. Era Quinstein.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ohtori continued to work prolifically. Her credits from this period include the role of Sayuri in the series Obatarian (1990) and a part in the OVA Violence Jack (1986). She also voiced Saeko Ayukawa in Zoku Kuronekoyakata and the Cream Lemon series, as well as Yasuko Nonomura in Ami: Sore kara and Tabidachi - Ami Shusho.

In her later career, Ohtori has demonstrated remarkable longevity and versatility, taking on roles in a wide array of modern anime. Her notable performances from the 2000s onward include Hester Gallop in Fafner in the Azure (2004), Matsu Shibasaki in Rozen Maiden (2004), and Tabitha Holy in The Good Witch of the West (2006). She voiced Kisaragi in the 2007 series ICE and the character Director, known as Ariel, in Romeo × Juliet (2007). More recently, she has been heard as the Head Teacher in Maho Girls PreCure! (2016), Taeko Miyauchi in Chihayafuru (2011-2019), and as an old woman in Attack on Titan (2013). Her career continues into the 2020s with roles in series such as The Dangers in My Heart (2023), Kaiju No. 8 (2024), and Witchy Precure! (2025).

Beyond anime, Ohtori's work is extensive in the field of dubbing foreign films and television series into Japanese. Her dubbing credits are numerous and include providing the Japanese voice for Cher's character in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, as well as participation in dubs for major films like Titanic and series like 24. She has also lent her voice to video games, such as Pokémon Masters and Gensō Suikoden IV, and to tokusatsu productions like Dengeki Sentai Changeman. Her extensive body of work, characterized by her warm and versatile voice, has established her as a respected and enduring figure in the Japanese voice acting industry.