Atsuko Tanaka
Acting
Born November 14, 1962, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Atsuko Tanaka (田中 敦子, Tanaka Atsuko, November 14, 1962 – August 20, 2024) was a Japanese voice actress and narrator. Born in Maebashi, she became interested in acting during her youth, and while educated at Ferris University, worked as a background extra at Shochiku. After spending years working as an office lady for a Tokyo executive, she enrolled in the Tokyo Announcement Academy and joined the talent agency Mausu Promotion, with whom she was affiliated at the time of her death. She was best known for her portrayal of Motoko Kusanagi in the Ghost in the Shell film and franchise, and she also voiced Konan in Naruto, Caster in Fate/stay night, Lisa Lisa in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Chun-Li in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Claudette in Queen's Blade, Francis Midford in Black Butler, Karura in Utawarerumono, Bayonetta in the Bayonetta series, Hanami in Jujutsu Kaisen, and Kyrie Ushiromiya in Umineko no Naku Koro ni.
Filmography
- #COMPASS2.0 ANIMATION PROJECT — Violetta (voice)
- Brave Bang Bravern! — Kunus (voice)
- The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic — Rose (voice)
- YATAGARASU: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master — Ōmurasaki no Omae (voice)
- Frieren: Beyond Journey's End — Flamme (voice)
- 2023Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Saigo no Ningen — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- MAKE MY DAY — Cathy Beck (voice)
- Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer — Muu (voice)
- 2021Detective Conan: The Scarlet Alibi — Mary Sera (voice)
- 2021Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet — Mary Sera (voice)
- Ganbare! TEAM NACS
- 2021Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- Kimi to Fit Boxing — Laura (voice)
- 2021Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
- The Way of the Househusband — Hibari Torii (voice)
- 2020ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards — Mauve (voice)
- Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- JUJUTSU KAISEN — Hanami (voice)
- Listeners — Kim (voice)
- The Gymnastics Samurai — Mari Aragaki (voice)
- 2019Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip — Mary Sera (voice)
- 2019Gundam Reconguista in G Movie I: Go! Core Fighter — Wilmit Zenam (voice)
- A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- — Akiko Nanbara (voice)
- 2018Batman Ninja — Poison Ivy / Pamela Isley (voice)
- Cutie Honey Universe — Inspector Genet / Sister Jill (voice)
- Devilman Crybaby — Sirene (voice)
- 2018I Want to Eat Your Pancreas — Haruki's Mother (voice)
- Queen's Blade UNLIMITED
- Today's Menu for the Emiya Family — Caster (voice)
- 2018Usuzumizakura: GARO — Akira (voice)
- 20173-Nen D-Gumi Glass no Kamen: Tobidase Watashitachi no Victory Road — Chigusa Tsukikage (voice)
- ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. — Mauve (voice)
- 2017Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic — Francis Midford (voice)
- 2017Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower — Caster (voice)
- GARO -VANISHING LINE- — Sister (voice)
- Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn — Uzal Delilah (voice)
- SUPER LOVERS — Haruko Kaidou (voice)
- The Glass Mask Year 3 Class D — Chigusa Tsukikage (voice)
- Thunderbolt Fantasy — Narrator (Voice)
- 2015Chieri and Cherry — Lady Emerald (voice)
- God Eater — Tsubaki Amamiya (voice)
- Hifuu Club Activity Record ~ The Sealed Esoteric History
- 2015Knights of Sidonia: The Movie — Samari Ittan (voice)
- 2015Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn — Uzal Delilah (voice)
- THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls — Executive Director Mishiro (voice)
- The Heroic Legend of Arslan — Tahamenay (voice)
- Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] — Caster (voice)
- Knights of Sidonia — Ittan Samari (voice)
- Parasyte -the maxim- — Ryoko Tamiya (voice), Reiko Tamura (voice)
- 2014Sleep Tight My Baby, Cradled in the Sky — Yuri Aoshima
- The Irregular at Magic High School — Virginia Balance (voice)
- Your Lie in April — Yuriko Ochiai (voice)
- 2013Bayonetta: Bloody Fate — Bayonetta (voice)
- Glitter Force Doki Doki — Marmo (voice)
- 2012Bread of Happiness
- Campione! — Lucretia Zola
- 2012Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles – Animal Adventure — Professor Kelly (voice)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure — Lisa Lisa (voice)
- Kokoro Connect — Reika Nagase (voice)
- Little Busters! — Announcer (voice)
- Ozma — Binas
- Tari Tari — Naoko Takakura (voice)
- 2011Carnival Phantasm: Illya's Castle
- Mazinkaiser SKL — Aira (voice)
- 2011TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance — Nina Williams (voice)
- 2011Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward Special OVA — Alice (voice)
- 2010Halo Legends — Dr. Halsey (segment "The Package")
- Halo Legends — Dr. Halsey
- A Certain Scientific Railgun — Harumi Kiyama (voice)
- Aoi Bungaku Series — Madam
- Beyond the Heavens — Bian Linglong
- 2009God Eater Prologue — Tsubaki Amamiya
- Nyan Koi! — Nyamsus
- Princess Lover! — Josephine (voice)
- Queen's Blade — Claudette (voice)
- 2009The River's Light — 蓝
- Umineko: When They Cry — Kasumi Sumadera
- Amatsuki
- Black Butler — Francis Midford (voice)
- 2008Ghost in the Shell 2.0 — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- The Daughter of Twenty Faces — Seiji Tamiya (voice)
- The Hill Dyed Rose Madder — Nagase (Mother)
- Devil May Cry — Trish (voice)
- 2007Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- Juken Sentai Gekiranger — Michelle Peng (Voice)
- 2007Juken Sentai Gekiranger: Gyun-Gyun! Fist Sage Great Athletic Meet — Michelle Peng (voice)
- Naruto Shippūden — Konan (voice)
- Shattered Angels — Mika Ayanokōji (voice)
- 2007The Piano Forest — Namie Amamiya (voice)
- Ergo Proxy — Lacan (voice)
- Fate/stay night — Caster (voice)
- 2006Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- Hataraki Man — Maiko Kaji (voice)
- Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple — Freya (voice)
- Le Chevalier D'Eon — Queen Elizabeth of Russia
- 2006Phoenix: Earthkeepers — The Phoenix (voice)
- Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry — Captain Vivian Medlock
- Utawarerumono — Karurauatsuurei
- Gallery Fake — Fei Cui
- 2005Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- 2005Lupin the Third: Angel Tactics — Kaori (voice)
- Mahou Sentai Magiranger — Gorgon (Voice)
- Noein: To Your Other Self — Miyuki Gotou (voice)
- Prayers
- Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Animation — Viletta Badim (voice)
- Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple — Miss Lemon (voice)
- Destiny of the Shrine Maiden — アメノムラクモ / Ame no Murakumo
- 2004Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- Monster — Margot (voice)
- 2004Phoenix: Robe of Feathers
- Tweeny Witches — Atelia (voice)
- Battle Programmer Shirase — Kotoe Amano (voice)
- 2003Heart Cocktail Again
- Hoop Days
- Maburaho — Maika Kazetsubaki
- Wolf's Rain — Jagara (voice)
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- 2002Patlabor WXIII the Movie — Saeko Misaki (voice)
- RahXephon — Sayoko Nanamori (voice)
- Salaryman Kintaro — Misuzu Suenaga (voice)
- Gravitation — Kaoruko (voice)
- 2000Reign: The Conqueror Movie — Cassandra
- Angel Links — Valeria Vertone (voice)
- BuBu ChaCha — Mom
- 1999Kindaichi Case Files : Deep Blue Massacre — Yurie Aizawa (voice)
- Legend of Himiko — Fujina
- Reign: The Conqueror — Cassandra (voice)
- AWOL -Absent Without Leave-
- Brain Powerd — Shiela Glass (voice)
- Cowboy Bebop — Coffy (voice)
- Fancy Lala — Yumi Haneishi (voice)
- Master Keaton
- Super Doll★Licca-chan — Puru
- AIKa — Nena Hagen (voice)
- 1997Eikou e no Spur: Igaya Chiharu Monogatari
- 1997Hermes - Winds of Love — Mermaid Delmone (voice)
- Master of Mosquiton '99 — Wolf Lady
- 1997Psycho Diver: Soul Siren — Angelica (voice)
- Speed Racer X
- Variable Geo — Miranda Jahana
- 1996Advancer Tina — Tina Owen (voice)
- Advancer Tina — Tina Owen (voice)
- Magic User's Club OVA
- 1995Ghost in the Shell — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- 1995Macross 7: The Galaxy Is Calling Me! — Margarita (voice)
- 1995Princess Minerva — Yurisis Cheloria (voice)
- Virtua Fighter
- Mahoujin Guru Guru
- My Sexual Harassment — Yumi Mayakawa (voice)
- Yamato Takeru — Shaman (voice)
- Black Jack — Abumaru (voice)
- 1993Lupin the Third: Voyage to Danger — Karen Korinsky (voice)
- Ogenki Clinic Adventures — Feeling Good Girl