Sumire Uesaka

I've always found Sumire Uesaka to be one of those rare performers who refuses to fit in a single box, and honestly I love her for it. You get this bright, instantly recognizable voice carrying anime heroines, and then she casually pivots into talking about Soviet history and Russian culture with the genuine nerdy passion of someone who actually studied the language at Sophia University. That combination shouldn't work, yet it absolutely does. Picking up Best New Actress at the Seiyu Awards tells me the chops are real, not just a quirky gimmick. What gets me is that she built a lane nobody else can copy: a Kamakura kid who turned her own oddball obsessions into a whole persona. I can never quite explain why I'm so charmed, but I always am.

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Sumire Uesaka is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and talent born on December 19, 1991, in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. She is a graduate of Sophia University and is known for her versatile career spanning animation voice work, music, and media appearances. In 2016 she received the New Actress Award at the Voice Actor Awards, demonstrating recognized achievement early in her career. Her personal social media accounts were closed in 2017 after continued online harassment, leaving a staff-run Twitter account.

Name (English)

Sumire Uesaka

Name (Japanese)

上坂すみれ

Reading

うえさか すみれ

Born

December 19, 1991 (age 34)

Origin

Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Voice Actress / Singer / Talent / Radio Personality / Television Producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

Blood type

O

Agency

Voice Kit

University

Sophia University

Awards & achievements

• 2016 — Voice Actor Awards, New Actress Award
• Unknown year — Voice Actor Awards

Works summary

Appearances

972 (2003–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

2003: 1, 2007: 1, 2009: 3, 2010: 1, 2011: 4, 2012: 21, 2013: 29, 2014: 31, 2015: 39, 2016: 34, 2017: 58, 2018: 31, 2019: 37, 2020: 35, 2021: 58, 2022: 42, 2023: 42, 2024: 33, 2025: 23, 2026: 6, year unknown: 443

Debut work

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://voicekit.jp/talent/uesakasumire/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/uesaka_sumire/
• Xhttps://x.com/uesaka_official
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E5%9D%82%E3%81%99%E3%81%BF%E3%82%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q874605

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Voice Actress
• Singer
• Talent

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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