Eriko Tamura

Eriko Tamura is a Japanese actress and singer who was born in Hitachinaka and grew up in Düsseldorf, Germany, from age 8 to 13. She won a celebrated competition in Japan at 14, which led to a regular role on the prime-time comedy Born to be Wild!. Her first starring part came in the NHK mini-series My Beloved Ultra Seven, and she later appeared in the Taiga Drama Hideyoshi as Hosokawa Gracia. She has starred in more than 20 films and television series in Japan and is also a recording artist, releasing 10 albums and 18 singles with EMI and touring to venues including the Nippon Budokan. Her popularity inspired the anime series Idol Densetsu Eriko, which was translated into six languages. In the United States, she played Princess Yaeko in the NBC series Heroes and Mai in Dragonball Evolution (2009), and she appeared in season 2 of Reaper.