Eri Otoguro

Two credits define her in most databases: the tokusatsu series Chouseishin Gransazer and the cult splatter comedy Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl. That is a strange pairing on paper, but both belong to corners of Japanese film and television that travel unusually well overseas — the kind of titles foreign fans find first and remember longest. Born in Bangkok, later a student at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, she has one of those biographies where the interesting details sit just outside the record. Almost everything else here is listed as private: no agency, no confirmed debut year, no awards. I find that oddly refreshing. So much of celebrity profiling is padding, and what remains when you strip the padding away is simply the work. If you want the living version of her rather than the archived one, her Instagram is the place to look; the filmography will tell you what she made, but not what she is doing now.

Name (English)

Eri Otoguro

Name (Japanese)

乙黒えり

Reading

おとぐろ えり

Born

October 12, 1982 (age 43)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

Origin

Bangkok, Thailand

Height

166 cm

Occupation

actor / tarento

University

Aoyama Gakuin University

• Official sitehttp://www.cast-may.com/contents/cast_11.php
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ellyotoguro/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%99%E9%BB%92%E3%81%88%E3%82%8A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3731433

Tags

• actor
• tarento

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.