Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese voice actress, singer and actress born on 10 September 1971. Prior to becoming a voice actress, she was an Idol Singer belonging to the Lemon Angel group. After that, she moved to voice acting. Her roles are usually Action Girls; she is most remembered as Mylene Flare Jenius in Macross 7, Meimi Haneoka in Kaitou Saint Tail, Makimachi Misao in Rurouni Kenshin and Cynthia in Pokémon: The Series.
She briefly retired in 2000, but then came back in 2003, then briefly retired again on 1 September 2016, saying that it's becoming difficult for her to use her voice, but then she announced her return on 31 May 2019.
No relation to voice actress Harumi Sakurai and voice actor Takahiro Sakurai, both of whom are also unrelated.
Notable roles:
- Azusa Miura in Idolmaster: Xenoglossia (The only time Azusa wasn't voiced by Chiaki Takahashi)
- Chigusa Sakai in Shakugan no Shana
- Codemaster Amzen in Chaotic
- Cynthia in Pokémon: The Series
- Doll Licca in Super Doll★Licca-chan
- Fuyo in Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless
- Herself in the Lemon Angel anime and her cameo appearance in Project A-ko
- Hinowa in Gintama
- Lena Sayers in My-Otome
- Marin in Akazukin Chacha
- Meimi Haneoka a.k.a. Saint Tail in Kaitou Saint Tail
- Misao Makimachi in Rurouni Kenshin, Kaoru Kamiya in the Audio Drama
- Mizuchi Saiou in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
- Mylene Flare Jenius in Macross 7 and any Macross and Super Robot Wars games Macross 7 appears in (darrin'd by Aya Hirano as of Uta Macross Sumaho De Culture note and Macross Shooting Insight)
- Sara in Shamanic Princess
- Shayla Shayla in El-Hazard: The Magnificent World