The performer known as Alisa who portrays Mio Kuroki is Alisa Yuriko Durbrow, a Japanese actress, model, and singer born on April 16, 1988, in Hanno, Saitama, Japan. While she is not primarily an anime voice actor in the traditional sense of providing character voices for animated series, she has contributed to anime productions through vocal performances and singing. Her most notable connection to anime is providing the singing voice for the character Angela in the acclaimed series Carole & Tuesday. For this role, she performed insert songs including "Endless" and contributed to the theme song performance.

Durbrow is best known for her live-action role as Mio Kuroki, also known as Queen Mio, in the 2003-2004 live-action television series Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, as well as the subsequent Special Act. In this production, she not only acted but also performed insert songs and theme songs as her character. Her character Mio Kuroki is a shadow of Queen Beryl, created with dark energy from Queen Metallia, and appears as a junior high school student in Usagi's class before being revealed as a plant-like monster in the Special Act.

Before her work on Sailor Moon, Durbrow was a child star on Japanese children's television programs and served as an exclusive model for the teen fashion magazine CANDy. Beyond her acting and modeling career, she has extended her musical talents to theme song composition, lyrics, and performance for the anime series KamiErabi GOD.app, serving as the ending theme performer. Her background includes fluency in both English and Japanese, owing to her British father and Japanese mother.