Kami Hiraiwa

I'll be honest, the name Kami Hiraiwa stopped me cold the first time, because "Kami" reads like the word for paper, and that little flicker of strangeness suits her perfectly. She's one of those Osaka-bred performers who never seems to be reaching for the spotlight, yet your eye drifts straight to her in the corner of the frame. There's a softness to her presence, an unforced, slightly offbeat warmth that makes even tiny supporting parts feel oddly alive, and I get the sense it comes from years of patient, unglamorous stage craft rather than any showy big break. She does voice work too, which tracks completely, because a texture that gentle would carry on sound alone. She wins with timing and quiet charm instead of flash, and that's a rare, genuinely lovable thing.

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Kami Hiraiwa is a Japanese actress and voice actress born on November 3, 1979, in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. She works across both live-action performance and voice acting, bringing a distinctive understated presence to her roles. She belongs to the theatre company Otona Keikaku. She is married to Sōichirō Yamauchi of the rock band Fujifabric.

Name (English)

Kami Hiraiwa

Name (Japanese)

平岩紙

Reading

ひらいわ かみ

Born

November 3, 1979 (age 46)

Origin

Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

161 cm

Occupation

Actress / Voice Actress

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Goat

Blood type

A

Active years

2000 -

Works summary

Appearances

193 (2000–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

2000: 2, 2001: 8, 2002: 7, 2003: 8, 2004: 8, 2005: 4, 2006: 10, 2007: 8, 2008: 13, 2009: 11, 2010: 9, 2011: 15, 2012: 7, 2013: 6, 2014: 9, 2015: 3, 2016: 2, 2017: 4, 2018: 8, 2019: 8, 2020: 5, 2021: 6, 2022: 4, 2023: 4, 2024: 4, 2025: 5, 2026: 1, year unknown: 14

Debut work

キレイ 神様と待ち合わせした女

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://otonakeikaku.jp/profile/profile_hiraiwa.html
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E5%B2%A9%E7%B4%99
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11482650

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Actress
• Voice Actress

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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