Romi Park


Romi Park is a Korean–Japanese actress, voice actress, and singer. Park graduated from the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music in Yonsei University and studied Korean at the Korean Language Institute. Park has won numerous awards, including the best actress in a leading role for her portrayal of Nana Osaki at the Seiyu Awards. Park is known for her roles as tough, calm and mature preteen or teenage boys who are often called prodigies in their fictional universes. Her female roles also fit the "tough/punk lady" archetype.

Early life and career

Park was born in Edogawa, Tokyo, where she attended and graduated from Wayo Kokudai Women's High School in 1990. Park entered the theater department at Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music where she graduated in 1992. Following her graduation, she studied at the Korean language school in Yonsei University. In 1993, she joined the Institute for Drama, and two years later she was promoted as a member of the theater group Yen in 1995.
In 1998, she made her voice acting debut as Kanan Gimms in the anime series Brain Powerd.

Awards and nominations

2003: Voice Actor award, 26th Anime Grand Prix.
2004: Voice Actor Award, Tokyo International Anime Fair 2004.
2006: Best Actress Award for Nana as Nana Osaki, 1st Seiyu Awards.
2013: starred in a live-action movie Akaboshi, which was nominated for a viewpoint at the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival.

Additional performances

In 2006, Park sang and released a CD.
In 2016, Park was scheduled to appear in the Box Contents 2016 theater, but she did not participate as a result of poor physical condition.
On November 15, 2017, she left the Yen theater group she had been with for 22 years, and established the entertainment and voice actor office LAL.
In 2019, she made her first musical appearance as Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables.

Personal life

On January 22, 2020, she announced on her official website and Twitter that she had married to Kazuhiro Yamaji.

Filmography

Anime

Theatre

Film

Drama CD

Video games

Tokusatsu

Dubbing roles

Live action

Animation