Masako Nozawa

Masako Nozawa commands a reverence few performers ever earn. Starting as a child actor at three and stumbling into voice work that became her life's calling, she has given decades of audiences a voice they grew up with. What moves me is not the youthful timbre, remarkable as it is, but the commitment to carry a single character across an entire lifetime, still working near ninety. Her 2013 Seiyu Awards honors barely capture it. To me she represents an almost vanishing ideal: total devotion to a role, sustained until it becomes inseparable from the artist herself. We will not see her like again.

Name (English)

Masako Nozawa

Name (Japanese)

野沢雅子

Reading

のざわ まさこ

Born

October 25, 1936 (age 89)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rat

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

actor / seiyū / child actor

Awards & achievements

• 2013 Seiyu Awards Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2013 Seiyu Awards Merit Award

• Official sitehttps://www.aoni.co.jp/search/nozawa-masako.html
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako%20Nozawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8E%E6%B2%A2%E9%9B%85%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259422

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• seiyū
• child actor

Last updated

2026-06-21

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