ACTOR

Junko Iwao

1970 - Today

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Junko Iwao (岩男 潤子, Iwao Junko, born February 18, 1970 in Beppu, Ōita) is a Japanese voice actress and singer. Her most notable role is in Cardcaptor Sakura, providing the voice to Sakura's best friend and cousin, Tomoyo Daidōji. She also voiced lead character Mima Kirigoe in Perfect Blue, Ceres in Ceres, Celestial Legend, and Kikyo in Hunter x Hunter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Junko Iwao has received more than 181,490 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Junko Iwao is the 9,405th most popular actor (down from 8,620th in 2019), the 2,027th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,806th in 2019) and the 241st most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Junko Iwao ranks 9,405 out of 13,578. Before her are Kim Seol-hyun, Rumer Willis, Alessandro Borghi, Riki Lindhome, Gene Raymond, and E. G. Daily. After her are Thomas Meighan, Bojana Novakovic, John Michael Higgins, Tom Forman, Ravi Teja, and Ronnie Corbett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Junko Iwao ranks 557. Before her are Redman, Lee Cheol-ha, Kate Allen, Yelena Yelesina, Diana King, and Dave Eggers. After her are Susan Abulhawa, Thierry Neuvic, Chris Coleman, Phil Mickelson, Kamel Daoud, and Paweł Nastula.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Junko Iwao ranks 2,027 out of 6,245. Before her are Masaaki Yanagishita (1960), Mitsuo Ogasawara (1979), Chieko Honda (1963), Akiko Yajima (1967), Mai Kuraki (1982), and Ao Tanaka (1998). After her are Teruyoshi Ito (1974), Miyuki Yanagita (1981), Inesu Emiko Takeoka (1971), Shoichi Funaki (1968), Koji Uehara (1975), and Yoshihiro Natsuka (1969).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Junko Iwao ranks 241. Before her are Kana Ueda (1980), Hiroshi Tamaki (1980), Saki Fujita (1984), Junko Minagawa (1975), Chieko Honda (1963), and Akiko Yajima (1967). After her are Eri Fukatsu (1973), Sayaka Kanda (1986), Aki Toyosaki (1986), Masaki Suda (1993), Kazuya Kamenashi (1986), and Pamela Franklin (1950).

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Television and Movie Roles

Perfect Blue
Mima Kirigoe (voice)
Encouraged by her managers, rising pop star Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered.
Feb 28th 19988.3 / 10
カードキャプターさくら
Tomoyo Daidouji (voice)
Sakura Kinomoto, an elementary school student who discovers that she possesses magical powers after accidentally freeing a set of magical cards from the book they had been sealed in for years. She is then tasked with retrieving those cards in order to avoid an unknown catastrophe from befalling the world.
8.6 / 10
デビルマン レディー
Jun Fudo / Devil Lady (voice)
The beautiful and successful supermodel Jun Fudou meets a woman named Lan Asuka, who confronts her with a werewolf monster, which she calls a devil beast. As a result, unimagined powers awaken in Jun, and she manages to defeat the monster. She, just like this werewolf, is part of the next step in human evolution: humans who can mutate into beast-like monsters and then mercilessly terrorise civilisation. Unlike the other devil beasts, however, she can retain her humanity, which is her undoing because Lan Asuka is a high-ranking employee of the government and of the “Anti-Beast Special Squad”, which wants to abuse her powers and train her to mercilessly hunt down her own species. Caught between these extremes and her weak self, the question arises: what fate will Jun meet? Will she ever be able to decide it for herself?
7.5 / 10