[2] Due to the work of her father, she moved seven times before graduating from high school.
After finishing high school in Hokkaido, she moved to Tokyo to become a stage actress.
She entered the training school of the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society (Haikyō) and enrolled in the acting department for half a year.
[2] In 1993, she played the main character Usagi Tsukino in the Sailor Moon anime series, for 7 episodes replacing Kotono Mitsuishi who was hospitalized.
[5] In 1995, she played Miaka Yūki in Fushigi Yûgi, her first leading role in television animation.