Mayu Tsuruta (鶴田真由, born April 25, 1970, in

Kamakura, Kanagawa , officially , is a Cities of Japan, city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. It is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu. The city has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 people per k ...

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) is an

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. In 1996 she was nominated by the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Supporting Actress in the film Kike wadatsumi no koe Last Friends. Following the chaos of Kenya's 2007 presidential election, on March 30, 2008, she visited thousands of internal refugees at

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Nakuru Nakuru (nicknamed Nax) is a city in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. It is the capital of Nakuru County, and it is the fourth largest city in Kenya and the largest in the Rift Valley region. As of 2019, Nakuru had an urban population of 570, ...

ASK grounds, as a goodwill ambassador for

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.Kenya: Japanese Actress Visits Chaos Victims
/ref> While surveying the situation at the

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, she spent time with several families and helped distribute

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Filmography

Film

* '' Graduation Journey: I Came from Japan'' (1993) * きけ、わだつみの声 Last Friends (''Kike wadatsumi no koe Last Friends'', 1995) * '' Sōrito Yobanaide'' (1997) * '' Owls' Castle'' (1999) * ''Mr. Rookie'' (2002) * '' Half a Confession'' (2004) * ''Year One in the North'' (2005) * ''Katenkoru'' (2005) * ''Hotori no Sakuko'' (2013) * '' The Ravine of Goodbye'' (2013) * ''Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura'' (2017) * ''Umi wo Kakeru'' (2018) * ''Katsu Fūtarō!!'' (2019) * ''

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'' (2022) * ''One Day, You Will Reach the Sea'' (2022) * ''You Made My Dawn'' (2023), Keiko Niwa * ''Family'' (2023)

Television

* '' Ranman'' (2023), Ōhata Ichi

Dubbing

* ''

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'' (Charlotte)

External links

tsurutamayu.com
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References

People from Kamakura Seijo University alumni 1970 births Living people Actresses from Kanagawa Prefecture {{Japanese-voice-actor-stub