Maaya Sakamoto

Maaya Sakamoto (坂本真綾, Sakamoto Maaya, born March 31, 1980 in Itabashi, Tokyo) is a Japanese seiyū and singer who made her debut in 1996 as the voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in the hit anime series The Vision of Escaflowne. She sings songs in both Japanese and English. She also does the voice of Padmé Amidala in the Japanese dub of Star Wars Episodes I, II, and III. She reprised the role in the current ongoing American 3D CGI animated television series,... more

Maaya Sakamoto (坂本真綾, Sakamoto Maaya, born March 31, 1980 in Itabashi, Tokyo) is a Japanese seiyū and singer who made her debut in 1996 as the voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in the hit anime series The Vision of Escaflowne. She sings songs in both Japanese and English. She also does the voice of Padmé Amidala in the Japanese dub of Star Wars Episodes I, II, and III. She reprised the role in the current ongoing American 3D CGI animated television series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. She is also voicing the lead character Chacha Kenomoto in the upcoming OVA, Kenomoto no Chat. Her first concert DVD, containing the complete concert from her We Are Kazeyomi tour stop at Tokyo's International Forum Hall A, was released in 2009. In the same year, she announced to her fanclub at events and on her website that she will perform her first concert at the Nippon Budokan on March 31st, 2010, also her thirtieth birthday. Her most recent single, Kobato's opening theme entitled Magic Number, was released on... less