Behind the anime

Tanie Kitabayashi

Voice actor

Kitabayashi Tanie was a Japanese actress.

Occupation: Voice Actor
Born: May 21, 1911
Died: 2010
Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
Years active: 1936–2003
Gender: Female
Awards: 2
Credits: 3

Tanie Kitabayashi at a glance

Tanie Kitabayashi is a voice actor with three credits in Aniphoria's catalog. Tanie is from Tokyo, Japan. Born May 21, 1911. Years active: 1936–2003.

Roles and credits

Voice roles on record include work in Twilight of the Cockroaches and My Neighbor Totoro.

Quick questions

What has Tanie Kitabayashi worked on?

Our catalog lists three credits, including Twilight of the Cockroaches and My Neighbor Totoro.

Which characters has Tanie Kitabayashi voiced?

Listed roles include Kanta no Obaa-chan and The Shrine.

Where is Tanie Kitabayashi from?

Their hometown is listed as Tokyo, Japan.

The person behind the work

Biography

Kitabayashi Tanie was a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards for Kiku to Isamu and at the 15th Japan Academy Prize for Rainbow Kids. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well-known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950.

She won the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Actress for her role in Daiyukai (1991). The role also won her Best Actress awards at the Mainichi Film Concours and Kinema Junpo Award. In 1960, she won Best Actress awards at the Mainichi Film Concours and the Blue Ribbon Awards for her work in Kiku to Isamu.

Her most popular role was that of the voice of grandmother Kanta no Obaa-san in the 1988 Studio Ghibli movie Tonari no Totoro. She died on April 27, 2010 of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. She was 98.