Masako Katsuki

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Masako Katsuki

Birth Name	雅子塩野 (Masako Shiono)
Born	October 15, 1959
in	Aomori, Japan

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Occupation	Seiyū

Gender	Female










Notable Credit(s)	Zeta Gundam as Reccoa Londe High School! Kimengumi as Masuyo Ikari Sailor Moon as Sailor Neptune Trapp Ikka Monogatari as Maria Von Trapp Glass Mask as Maya Kitajima Naruto as Tsunade

Agent	81 Produce

Masako Katsuki (勝生真沙子, Katsuki Masako^?), née Masako Shiono (塩野雅子 Shiono Masako, born October 15, 1959) is a veteran seiyū who was born in Hachinohe, Aomori. She is employed by 81 Produce and has voiced in several notable films and tv series ^[1].

Although not noted at the Internet Movie Database, according to the Anime News Network as of early March 2007, Katsuki is one of the more prolific ^[2] female seiyū with 150 roles credited to her name.

She was a member of Theater Echo, known from their comedic stage performances. Her bloodtype is A and height is 163cm.

1 Overview
2 Trivia
3 Notable voice roles
4 References/Links

[edit] Overview

Katsuki’s voice is often described as cool and charming, but is also known to sound very passionate. She voices mostly strong and beautiful female characters.

Many of Katsuki’s characters have a tumultuous personality (Tsunade from Naruto, Masuyo Ikari from Kimengumi Highschool and Aya Misaki from Oniisama e...), which gains her a lot of villain/rival roles. In contrast, Katsuki voiced those who are nice and calm (Sailor Neptune), and stoic (Farangius from Arslan). She also voiced stupid, playful characters (Maria Trapp from Trapp Ikka Monogatari and Cecilia von Spitzweg from Kyo Kara Maoh!). There were a few cases, but Katsuki also voiced boys (Zen Takazuchiya).

Apart from anime, Katsuki has done a multitude of foreign dub work ^[3]. She is known as the dub voice for Kim Cattrall (especially as the Japanese voice for Samantha Jones in Sex and the City), Sharon Stone and Jodie Foster to name a few. She also voiced Beyoncé Knowles in Goldmember.

[edit] Trivia

Hobbies are skiing, golf and knitting
On the radio show Oh NARUTO NIPPON, Katsuki gave seiyū Junko Takeuchi (the star of Naruto) some advice on golf

Katsuki has appeared in shows along with the late Kaneto Shiozawa where their roles were close:
- In The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Katsuki played Faranguis while Shiozawa played Narcasse. Both are companions who assist Prince Arslan.
- In High School! Kimengumi, Shiozawa played the gay student Dai Monohoshi while Katsuki played his fierce teacher Masuyo Ikari.
- In Hades Project Zeorymer, both Rockfell (Katsuki) and Saiga (Shiozawa) were members of the Hau Dragon antagonist group.