Masako Ikeda
Acting
Born January 1, 1939, Tokyo, Japan
Masako Ikeda (池田 昌子, Ikeda Masako; 1 January 1939 – 3 March 2026) was a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator from Tokyo, Japan. She is most known for the roles of Reika "Madame Butterfly" Ryuuzaki in Aim for the Ace!, Nodoka Saotome in Ranma ½, Maetel in Galaxy Express 999, Michiko in Harmagedon, and for being the Japanese voice-over actress of Audrey Hepburn. Ikeda died from an intracerebral hemorrhage on 3 March 2026 at the age of 87.
Filmography
- Kyoto Romance: An Eternal Story — MC, Creator
- 2018Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! — Mother of Ultra (voice)
- Space Brothers — Sharon Kaneko (voice)
- 2011Escape Game ZERO
- Nichijou: My Ordinary Life — Narration (voice)
- 2009Galaxy Express 999: Beyond the Diamond Ring — Maetel (voice)
- Hello Anne: Before Green Gables — Narrator
- 2006The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet — Maetel (voice)
- Ultraman Mebius Side Story: Hikari Saga — Mother of Ultra (voice)
- 2006Ultraman Mebius Side Story: Hikari Saga - SAGA 1: Arb's Tragedy — Mother of Ultra (voice)
- Monster — British Couple (voice)
- Yukikaze — Jackson Lynn
- 2001Galaxy Express 999: The Rainbow Sign
- 2000Maetel Legend — Maetel
- Maetel Legend
- Harlock Saga - The Ring of the Nibelungs — Maetel
- 1998DNA Sights 999.9 — Narrator (voice)
- 1998Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy — Maetel (voice)
- Queen Emeraldas
- 1996The Heroic Elegy of Confucius — Nanzi (voice)
- 1996X — Tooru
- Romeo's Blue Skies — Narrator (voice)
- The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA — Mrs. Kogure (voice)
- 1992Silent Möbius 2 — Fuyuka Liqueur (voice)
- 1991I'm All Yours — Sakurako Mamiya (voice)
- 1991Kayoko's Diary — Yoshi Nakane (voice)
- 1991Kitty-Cat Fantasia — Saeko Kimura (voice)
- Miracle Psychicer Seizan — (Voice)
- 1991Seven Days War 2
- 1991Silent Möbius — Fuyuka Liqueur (voice)
- 1990The Story of Perrine
- Ranma ½ — Nodoka Saotome
- 1988Fairy King — Queen Mab (voice)
- 1987Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth — Sumiko Fudou (voice)
- 1987Phoenix: Space Chapter — Hi no tori
- 1987Phoenix: Yamato Chapter — Phoenix
- 1986Phoenix: Karma Chapter — Phoenix (voice)
- 1986Saint Elmo - Apostle of Light — Fū the Alien (voice) / Yūki's Mother (voice)
- The Story of Pollyanna — Ruth Wetherby Carew (voice)
- 1984Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature — Yoko Ishigami (voice)
- 1984Ultraman Story — Mother of Ultra
- Aura Battler Dunbine — Silky Mau
- 1983Harmagedon — Michiko Azuma (voice)
- 1982Miracle of Love: Doctor Norman's Story
- Patalliro! — Etrange (voice), エトランジェ
- 1982The Wonderful Adventures of Nils — (voice)
- 1981Adieu Galaxy Express 999 — Maetel (voice)
- Queen Millennia — Cleopatra
- 1980Galaxy Express 999: Can You Love Like a Mother?!! — Maetel (voice)
- 1980Galaxy Express 999: Claire of Glass — Maetel (voice)
- 1980Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Traveler Emeraldas — Maetel (voice)
- The Wonderful Adventures of Nils — Nils' Mother (voice)
- 1980Toward the Terra — Mother Eliza (voice)
- 1979Aim for the Ace! The Movie — Reika Ryuuzaki (voice)
- 1979Galaxy Express 999: Can You Live Like a Warrior!! — Maetel (voice)
- 1979Galaxy Express 999: The Movie — Maetel (voice)
- 1979Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Sealed Room of the Inner Chamber
- 1979Maegami Tarou — ツバメトビ
- Galaxy Express 999 — Maetel (voice)
- Shin Aim for the Ace! — Reika Ryuzaki / Madame Butterfly (voice)
- The Story of Perrine — Marie Paindavoine
- Aim for the Ace! — Reika Ryûzaki
- Pinocchio: The Series — Fairy, Kenken
- 1968若い川の流れ
- 1967Aruhi watashi wa
- 1967The Top of Mount Fuji