Yoshie Taira is a Japanese actress and voice actress born on October 12, 1954, in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan. Her career is primarily rooted in stage and screen acting, with voice acting forming a significant, though not singular, part of her professional work. She is affiliated with the theater company Literary座. Taira is married to filmmaker Rintaro Mayuzumi.

Taira's acting portfolio is extensive, particularly in television and theater. She is known for her long-running role as Yukie, the wife of the title character, in the TBS prime-time television series Ōoka Echizen, a part she played from 1985 to 1999. Her work also includes numerous other period dramas, known as jidaigeki, such as Gokenin Zankurō, Mito Kōmon, and Abarenbō Shōgun. In the theater, she has taken on a wide variety of stage roles.

As a voice actress, Taira's work has included dubbing foreign television series and films into Japanese. Notable examples of this include providing the Japanese voice for the mother in the medical drama Doogie Howser, M.D., for Amy Hasting in an episode of The New Perry Mason, and for Abigail Bartlet in the political drama The West Wing.

In the realm of anime, Taira has contributed her voice to specific projects. She is credited with the role of Miep Gies in the 1995 anime film The Diary of Anne Frank. She also voiced the character Mihoko Takae in the 2013 biographical anime film Ashita no Kibō -Kanashimi yo Arigatō: Takae Tsuneo Monogatari-. This film tells the story of Tsuneo Takae, a man who lost both his arms in an accident and later dedicated his life to helping others with disabilities.