Masako Nozawa

Masako Nozawa

CountryJapan Japan
GenderFemale
BirthdayOct 25, 1936
BiographyMasako Nozawa (Japanese: 野沢 雅子, Hepburn: Nozawa Masako; born October 25, 1936) is a Japanese actress. Beginning work as a child actress at the age of three, by the time she became an adult, voice acting had inadvertently become her main occupation. Throughout her career, Nozawa has been affiliated with Production Baobab, 81 Produce, the self-owned Office Nozawa and Aoni Production. She is best known as the voice of Son Goku in the Dragon Ball franchise, beginning with its first animated adaptation in 1986. She also voices most of the character's male relatives, namely Son Gohan, Son Goten, and Bardock. Nozawa's other roles include Kitarō in GeGeGe no Kitarō (1968, 1971 and 2008), Doraemon in the 1973 anime, and Tetsurō Hoshino in Galaxy Express 999 (1978).

A pioneer of voice acting in Japan, Nozawa is the first voice actor to be honored as a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government and the first to win the Kikuchi Kan Prize. Her other accolades include an Animation Kobe Award, Tokyo Anime Award, Seiyu Award, Japanese Movie Critics Award and Japan Academy Film Prize. Her work voicing Goku in Dragon Ball video games has earned her two Guinness World Records, including for the longest video game voice acting career. Nozawa is a vice president of the Japan Actors Union. Her husband was fellow voice actor Masaaki Tsukada.

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