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My Take
For anyone who grew up in Japan, Nobuyo Oyama's voice is not a performance credit, it is a childhood. She played Doraemon, a robot cat, for twenty-six years, and it never once sounded like an adult woman doing an impression of a boy. That is the strange alchemy of great voice acting: the actor disappears and the character becomes the only version anyone will accept. Plenty of roles get recast. Hers, really, never could be. What I find most human about her is the range around it, a stage and screen actress, a singer, and a cookbook writer, as if one iconic role was never going to be enough to contain her. She faced illness openly in her later years and died in September 2024. Some debts you can only repay by saying thank you.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Nobuyo Ōyama
- Name (Japanese)
- 大山のぶ代
- Born
- October 16, 1933 – September 29, 2024
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Rooster
- Origin
- Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
- Height
- 162 cm
- Occupation
- seiyū / actor / singer / culinary writer
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%B1%B1%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B6%E4%BB%A3
Frequently asked questions
When was Nobuyo Ōyama born?
October 16, 1933 – September 29, 2024.
Where is Nobuyo Ōyama from?
Nobuyo Ōyama is from Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
What does Nobuyo Ōyama do?
Nobuyo Ōyama works as seiyū, actor, singer, culinary writer.
How tall is Nobuyo Ōyama?
Nobuyo Ōyama is 162 cm.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-07-26
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.