Michiko Hirai

After graduating from Ferris Women's Junior College in Music Department,[1] she was invited by Kazuo Kumakura to join Theater Echo in 1957.

[4] While she was acting for her theater company, she was also active as a voice actress dubbing Faye Dunaway[1] and the role of Sally Yumeno in the TV anime Sally the Witch among many.

She was married to fellow voice actor Shinji Nakae.

[3] She was also a skilled singer[5] and a Mahjong lover[4] She died at the age of 48 on July 3, 1984, at the Mishima Clinic in Koganei, Tokyo, due to heart failure.

[3] Her last works were Mrs Dracula in Lupin the 3rd Part III which was broadcast 4 days after her death, and the historical drama Onna goroshi abura no jigoku which was broadcast 2 months after her death.