Atsuko Tanaka

Birth: November 14, 1962

Death: August 20, 2024

Age: 61

Gender: Female

Years Active: 1980 ~ 2024

Agency: Mausu Promotion

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Atsuko Satou, known professionally as Atsuko Tanaka, was a Japanese voice actress and narrator.

Her most-known roles are Medea in Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, Motoko Kusanagi in the Ghost in the Shell franchise, Lisa Lisa in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Konan in Naruto: Shippuden. In video games, she voiced title characters Lara Croft in the Japanese dub of the Tomb Raider games, Bayonetta in the Bayonetta: Bloody Fate film adaptation and Bayonetta 2 and Kyrie Ushiromiya from Umineko no Naku Koro ni. She attended the Tokyo Announcement Academy where she studied voice training in 1991. In 2012, a Biglobe poll named her the voice actress with the sexiest voice.

Tanaka was married and had a sister. She also considered Kikuko Inoue to be her best friend. Mother of voice actor Hikaru Tanaka.

On August 20, 2024, it was announced that Tanaka passed away at the age of 61.