Since then, she has voiced Minako Aino/Sailor Venus in the Sailor Moon series,[2] as well as Fran in Final Fantasy XII, Carmen la Bailaora in Ashita no Nadja, Schaffe in Ninja Senshi Tobikage and Daiko Hayami in New Cutie Honey.
Rika Fukami was born on August 8, 1963,[3] in Kyoto Prefecture,[4] and she was raised in Chichibu, Saitama,[5] where she was a member of the chorus club in elementary school.
[7][11] After graduating from the school, she passed the audition for Dojinsha Productions [ja][12] and joined the company, making her debut as a voice actress in the anime series Tokimeki Tonight.
[13][14] She also voiced Renhō in Jungle King Tar-chan, Helen Jackson in Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, Kaguya in Yaiba, Reideen Sayla in Reideen the Superior, Angela in Kurogane Communication, Hamil in Black Heaven, Kira and Iyo in Legend of Himiko, Viola in Zoids: Chaotic Century, and Spoor in Crest of the Stars and its the sequel series Banner of the Stars.
[13][14] She later branched to video game franchises, voicing Lisa in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Fran in Final Fantasy XII, and Alex Wesker in Resident Evil: Revelations 2, and she reprised her role as Myung Fang Lone in Macross Ace Frontier.
[13][15][16] In the early-2000s, she voiced Majo Prima in Ojamajo Doremi, Ophanimon and Yuriko Kanbara in Digimon Frontier, Suzu Imamura in Full Moon o Sagashite, Natsuhi in Naruto, Carmen la Bailaora in Ashita no Nadja, and Regine in Futari wa Pretty Cure.
[20] In addition to anime, she provides the Japanese dub localization for numerous international film and television actors including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Sharon Stone and Jodie Foster.