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.

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Name (English)

Masako Nozawa

Name (Japanese)

野沢雅子

Reading

のざわ まさこ

Born

October 25, 1936 (age 89)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Weight

48 kg

Occupation

actor / seiyū / child actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rat

Blood type

O

Agency

Aoni Production

Awards & achievements

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

Works summary

Appearances

654 (1960–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

1960: 1, 1961: 4, 1963: 1, 1966: 1, 1967: 3, 1968: 2, 1969: 7, 1970: 2, 1971: 3, 1972: 2, 1973: 5, 1974: 4, 1975: 5, 1976: 3, 1977: 3, 1978: 1, 1979: 2, 1980: 3, 1981: 5, 1982: 2, 1983: 2, 1984: 3, 1985: 3, 1986: 1, 1987: 1, 1988: 4, 1989: 5, 1990: 8, 1991: 5, 1992: 3, 1993: 3, 1994: 3, 1995: 4, 1996: 3, 1997: 4, 1998: 1, 1999: 2, 2000: 2, 2001: 8, 2002: 3, 2003: 2, 2004: 4, 2005: 4, 2006: 4, 2007: 8, 2008: 2, 2009: 2, 2010: 7, 2011: 5, 2012: 6, 2013: 3, 2014: 8, 2015: 8, 2016: 2, 2017: 2, 2018: 12, 2019: 4, 2020: 4, 2021: 3, 2022: 7, 2023: 7, 2024: 6, 2025: 9, 2026: 3, year unknown: 405

Debut work

つんころ大助

Filmography / notable works

• 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

September 24, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.