Due to technical issues, Park's name is often written as due to the '' Hyōgaiji'' status of (which is the kan'on reading of the kanji). She has also been referred by 朴路美 and 朴王路美. is a Japanese actress and singer of Korean descent. Park is affiliated with LAL. She graduated from the
Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music
is a junior college
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and studied Korean at the Korean Language Institute (한국어학당) in
Yonsei University
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. She won numerous awards, including the Best Actress Award at the 1st Seiyu Awards.
Park is known for her roles as tough, calm and mature preteen or teenage boys who are often called prodigies in their fictional universes (for example, Tao Ren, Ken Ichijouji, Tōshirō Hitsugaya,
Edward Elric
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,
Kosuke Ueki
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Main characters
Kosuke Ueki
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*Romanized as "''Kousuke Ueki''" in the Animax versionNatsume Hyūga). Her female roles also fit the "tough lady/punk girl" archetype ( Temari, Nana Osaki and Teresa of the Faint Smile).
Personal life
Park was born in
Edogawa, Tokyo
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. She attended and graduated from (和洋国府台女子高等学校) in 1990. She entered the theater department at
Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music
is a junior college
A junior college is a type of post-secondary institution that offers vocational and academic training that is designed to prepare students for either skilled trades and technical occupations or support roles in professions ...
where she graduated in 1992. She later studied at the Korean language school in
Yonsei University
Yonsei University () is a Private university, private Christian university, Christian research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Yonsei is one of the three most prestigious universities in the country, part of a group referred to as SK ...
. In 1993, she joined the Institute for Drama, and two years later she was promoted as a member of the theater group Yen in 1995.
On January 22, 2020, which was the same day as her 48th birthday, she announced on her official website and
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In 1998, she made her voice acting debut as Kanan Gimms in the anime series '' Brain Powerd''.
Additional performances
In 2006, Park sang and released a CD. In 2016, Park was scheduled to appear in the Box Contents 2016 theater, but she did not participate as a result of poor physical condition. On November 15, 2017, she left the Yen theater group she had been with for 22 years, and established the entertainment and voice actor office LAL. In August 2018, she read the
Your Name
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audiobook. In 2019, she made her first musical appearance as Madame Thenardier in ''
Les Misérables
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