Terue Nunami was a Japanese actress and voice actress born on December 31, 1923, in Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Hanako Nunami. She began her career with the theater company Togei before joining Theatre Echo, where she remained affiliated for a significant portion of her professional life. Nunami passed away on April 1, 2013, at the age of 89 due to pneumonia.

Nunami's career was marked by a distinctive presence in both tokusatsu special effects dramas and anime. In tokusatsu, she became particularly well-known for providing voices for numerous female monsters, especially within the Kamen Rider franchise. Her contributions to the series included voicing characters such as Bee Woman and Dokudarian in the original Kamen Rider, as well as Nokogiri Tokage in Kamen Rider V3 and roles in Kamen Rider Sky Rider and Kamen Rider Super1. She also lent her voice to productions like Cosmic Ironman Kyodain and the super hero series Super God Bibyun. In contrast to her often villainous tokusatsu roles, her work in Japanese television animation saw her frequently cast as gentle, elderly female characters, or grandmothers.

Her extensive voice filmography across anime and foreign language dubbing includes the two specific roles mentioned by the user. In the 1991 animated film Ushiro no Shōmen Daare, she played the role of the grandmother. She also provided the Japanese voice for the character Mrs. Wiegert in the film The Dancing Girl, which is known in Japanese as Magnolia no Hanatachi. Among her many other notable anime roles were Peter's grandmother in the second season of Heidi, Girl of the Alps, the landlady in an episode of The Rose of Versailles, and Maria, the grandmother of the protagonist, in Romeo's Blue Skies. She also voiced roles in OVA productions such as Mrs. Bicock in Legend of the Galactic Heroes. In anime films, her credits included a vegetable shop lady in Panda! Go, Panda!.

Beyond anime, Nunami was highly active in the field of Japanese dubbing for foreign films and television series, a career that spanned several decades. Her dubbing work is extensive and includes providing Japanese voices for major Hollywood films. For instance, she dubbed the role of Mama Corleone in The Godfather Part II for its Nippon Television broadcast, and she voiced the character of Ilma Bunt in the TBS version of On Her Majesty's Secret Service from the James Bond series. She was also the Japanese voice for the housekeeper Schmidt in the Fuji TV broadcast of The Sound of Music and for Bird Woman and Brill in a soft edition of Mary Poppins. Her work in this area also encompassed films like The Exorcist, Cocoon: The Return, and Steel Magnolias, among many others.

Throughout her long career, Terue Nunami became a recognizable voice in Japanese entertainment, contributing to classic series and films across multiple genres. Her legacy is defined by the breadth of her work, from the menacing creatures of tokusatsu to the warm-hearted grandmothers of world masterpiece theater animation, and her enduring presence in the golden age of Japanese voice acting for foreign films.