Sumire Uesaka
Sumire Uesaka is a Japanese voice actress and singer associated with Voice Kit. She first began her career as a junior talent in 2000, appearing in various commercials. In 2011, she transitioned into voice acting. She won the Best Rookie Actress at the 10th Seiyu Awards. In addition to voice acting, Uesaka began a music career in April 2013 under King Records under the King Amusement Creative label.
Career
2000–2009: Early modeling work
When Uesaka was 8 years old, she was scouted by 's junior talent division on her way home from taking the STEP Eiken exams. In the same year, she made her first media appearance in a Vidal Sassoon commercial, becoming the first Japanese person featured in the company's advertisements. Uesaka continued making appearances in commercials, such as Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children – Book of Fire in 2003 and Vicks in 2009.2011–present: Voice acting career
In April 2011, at the age of 19, Uesaka decided to pursue voice acting and transferred to Space Craft's voice acting division. She auditioned for the anime adaptation of Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!, winning the role of Sora Takanashi, which was her first leading role in voice acting.She voiced Nonna in Girls und Panzer characters#Pravda High School|Girls und Panzer] and was a guest at J-Fest in Russia in November 2013.
Since October 2011, she has been the radio personality on the web radio program A&G NEXT GENERATION Lady Go!!.
On September 4, 2020, she announced that she has left Space Craft Entertainment and would become a freelancer. On March 1, 2021, she announced that she would be joining the agency Voice Kit.
Other ventures
Modeling
Uesaka is a fan of lolita fashion and used to wear it when she first started voice acting professionally. Since 2011, Uesaka has modeled for Baby, the Stars Shine Bright and made guest appearances at their events. She also modeled for the brand during their fashion runway events. In addition, she has also modeled for Metamorphose temps de fille. Uesaka has modeled in lolita fashion publications, such as Gothic & Lolita Bible, , Harajuku Pop and Lapin Labyrinthe. In 2024, she produced a themed café called Twilight Rouge, with the outfits designed by lolita fashion brand Victorian Maiden.Professional wrestling
Uesaka made her professional wrestling debut during DDT Pro-Wrestling's DDT Las Vegas Series ~ Neshin ~ event on April 20, 2025, where she won the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship for a short period of time.Personal life
Uesaka cites Halko Momoi as her inspiration and became interested in voice acting after watching Nurse Witch Komugi when she was 10 years old. Since hearing the State Anthem of the USSR in her first year of high school, Uesaka became interested in Russian culture and the former Soviet Union. In April 2010, she enrolled in Faculty of Foreign Studies at Sophia University. She majored in Russian studies and announced that she had graduated on March 27, 2014.In March 2016, after several cases of online sexual harassment, she announced that her personal Twitter account would no longer be updated, but resumed in November 2016. Her personal Twitter and Instagram were later closed on July 21, 2017 after continuous harassment, after which her social media presence has been limited to a new Twitter account run by her staff.
Filmography
Anime series
;2012Girls und Panzer as Nonna, PiyotanKokoro Connect as Kaoru Setouchi Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father! as Sora TakanashiLove, Chunibyo & Other Delusions as Sanae DekomoriSengoku Collection as Annihilate Princess Mogami Yoshiaki;2013Fantasista Doll as Manai HatsukiGenshiken Nidaime as Rika YoshitakeGJ-bu as Tamaki KannazukiMuromi-san as SumidaOutbreak Company as Elvia Hanaiman
;2014Cross Ange as Momoka OginomeGonna be the Twin-Tail!! as Sōji Mitsuka Hozuki's Coolheadedness as Peach MakiInugami-san to Nekoyama-san as Yachiyo InugamiLord Marksman and Vanadis as TittaLove, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Heart Throb as Sanae DekomoriNobunagun as GarikoSeitokai Yakuindomo as Vice-president MoriZ/X Ignition as Reia Sento
;2015Concrete Revolutio as Kikko HoshinoDog Days, SharuKantai Collection as Fubuki (1927)|Fubuki], Sōryū, HiryūLovely Muco as Rena-chanOverlord as Shalltear BloodfallenPlastic Memories as Eru MiruQ Transformer: Saranaru Ninkimono e no Michi as ArceeShimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist as Oboro TsukimigusaShow by Rock!! as ChuChuTesagure! Bukatsumono Spin-off Purupurun Sharumu to Asobou as Okonogi Tomomi The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls as Anastasia
;2016Ange Vierge as Ageha SanagiConcrete Revolutio: The Last Song as Kikko HoshinoLuck & Logic as AthenaMyriad Colors Phantom World as Mai KawakamiRS Project -Rebirth Storage- as Yuzuru MidōShow by Rock!! Short!! as ChuChuShow by Rock!!# as ChuChuThis Art Club Has a Problem! as ColetteTsukiuta. The Animation as Tsubaki TendouinViVid Strike! as Yumina Enclave
;2017
- Aho-Girl as Disciplinary Committee President
- Battle Girl High School as Yuri Himukai
- Beyblade Burst Evolution as Ataru Okinaka
- Chaos;Child as Serika Onoe
- Chō Shōnen Tantei-dan NEO as Mayumi Hanazaki
- Hand Shakers as Chizuru
- The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Theater as Anastasia
- In Another World with My Smartphone as Leen
- Inuyashiki as Mari Inuyashiki
- Restaurant to Another World as Aletta
- Urahara as Mari Shirako
- BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico and Pastel Life as Chisato Shirasagi
- Boarding School Juliet as Anne Sieber
- Himote House as Minamo Arai
- Killing Bites as Ui Inaba
- Pop Team Epic as Pipimi and Korona Yuhi
- Ongaku Shōjo as Kiri Mukae
- Overlord as Shalltear Bloodfallen
- Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis as Erika Arendt
- Xuan Yuan Sword Luminary as Empress Long Cheng
- Azur Lane as HMS Warspite, HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913), USS Saratoga (CV-3), IJN Akashi
- BanG Dream! 2nd Season as Chisato Shirasagi
- Carole & Tuesday as Angela Carpenter
- Grimms Notes The Animation as Curly
- Isekai Quartet as Shalltear Bloodfallen
- O Maidens in Your Savage Season as Rika Sonezaki
- Senryu Girl as Tao Hanakai
- Star Twinkle PreCure as Yuni / Cure Cosmo
- Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher!? as Kana Kojima
- Asteroid in Love as Mari Morino
- BanG Dream! 3rd Season and BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico: Ohmori as Chisato Shirasagi
- Fly Me [to the Moon (manga)|Fly Me to the Moon] as Aya Arisugawa
- Hatena Illusion as Kokomi Kikyōin
- In/Spectre as Karin Nanase
- Iwa-Kakeru! -Sport Climbing Girls- as Konomi Kasahara
- Lapis Re:Lights as Camilla
- Rail Romanesque as Suzushiro
- Seton Academy: Join the Pack! as Anne Anetani
- Shachibato! President, It's Time for Battle! as Valmi
- Warlords of Sigrdrifa as Komachi Mikuri
- Azur Lane: Slow Ahead! as IJN Akashi
- BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico Fever! as Chisato Shirasagi
- Don't [Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro] as Hayase Nagatoro
- Ex-Arm as Chikage Rokuoin
- Kageki Shojo!! as Sawa Sugimoto
- Kimi to Fit Boxing as Martina
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S as Chloe
- My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X as Susanna Randall
- PuraOre! Pride of Orange as Maya Walker
- Restaurant to Another World 2 as Aletta
- Show by Rock!! Stars!! as ChuChu
- So I'm a Spider, So What? as Ariel
- Takt Op. Destiny as Valkyrie
- The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! as Kyoko Jingu
- The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace as Nickel
- Girls' Frontline as Mosin-Nagant, PPSh-41
- Hanabi-chan Is Often Late as Versus Ikusa Takanawa
- Love After World Domination as Anna Hashimoto
- Overlord IV as Shalltear Bloodfallen
- Princess Connect! Re:Dive Season 2 as Suzuna
- Shine On! Bakumatsu Bad Boys! as Akira
- Urusei Yatsura (2022) as Lum
- Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki 4 Satsume as Shō Kochikashi
- Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack as Hayase Nagatoro
- Fly Me to the Moon 2nd Season as Aya Arisugawa
- In Another World with My Smartphone 2nd Season as Leen
- KamiKatsu as Shiruriru
- Rail Romanesque 2 as Suzushiro
- Rokudo's Bad Girls as Ranna Himawari
- Spy Classroom as Thea
- Tearmoon Empire as Mia Luna Tearmoon
- TenPuru as Kagura Baldwin
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You as Hahari Hanazono
- The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses as Kikka Makuzawa
- Yuri Is My Job! as Mitsuki Ayanokōji
- Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian as Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou
- Grendizer U as Sayaka Yumi
- Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night as Miiko
- Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin Arc as Meat, Bibimba
- Shaman King: Flowers as Alumi Niumbirch
- Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World Season 2 as Millavair Lou Nebulis VIII
- Too Many Losing Heroines! as Konami Amanatsu
- Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister as Yae Amagami
- A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace as Nagomi Hayachine
- Bad Girl as Rin Mōri
- Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills?! as Lilia
- Ninja vs. Gokudo as Gamute
- Please Put Them On, Takamine-san as Erie Evergreen
- Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring as Ruri Hazakura
Original net animation
- Eyedrops as Epsilon-Aminocaproic Acid
- Cute Executive Officer as Yuki Karuizawa
- Ganbare Dōki-chan as Kōhai-chan
- Love Through a Prism as Catherine Astor
Anime films
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!: Rikka Version as Sanae DekomoriGirls und Panzer der Film as Nonna, PiyotanKanColle: The Movie as Fubuki, Sōryū, HiryūLove, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take on Me as Sanae DekomoriBanG Dream! Film Live as Chisato ShirasagiGoblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown as Noble FencerBanG Dream! Film Live 2nd Stage as Chisato ShirasagiRe:cycle of Penguindrum as Purin-Chu-PenguinMobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom as Ingrid TradollŌmuro-ke as Megumi SonokawaUmamusume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era as Agnes TachyonMe & Roboco as RobocoVirgin Punk: Clockwork Girl as VespaVideo games
;2012Game Demo Papa no Iu Koto wo Kikinasai! as Sora TakanashiCorpse Party Anthology: Sachiko's Game of Love Hysteric Birthday 2U as Ran KobayashiKokoro Connect Yochi Random as Kaoru SetouchiThe Idolmaster Cinderella Girls as Anastasia;2013Kantai Collection as Sōryū, Hiryū, Fubuki class
;2014
- Chaos;Child as Onoe SerikaHyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart as LidDanganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls as Jataro KemuriAtelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea as Shallotte Elminus
- Battle Girl High School as Yuri Himukai
;2017BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! as Chisato ShirasagiAzur Lane as USS Saratoga (CV-3), HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913), HMS Warspite (03), IJN Akashi, KMS Deutschland and SN KirovAnother Eden as Suzette
;2018Food Fantasy as OsechiPrincess Connect! Re:Dive as Suzuna / Suzuna MinamiStreet Fighter V: Arcade Edition as Falke
- Master of Eternity as Emily
- Fitness Boxing as Martina
- Sangokushi Heroes as Sun Shangxiang
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon as Saeko Mukouda and Nanoha Mukouda
- Sdorica as PAFF
- Cytus 2 as PAFF
- Magia Record as Yuuna Kaharu
- Crash fever as Dilong Caishen
- Final Fantasy VII Remake as Kyrie Canaan
- TOUHOU Spell Bubble as Remilia Scarlet
- Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm and Exercise as Martina
- Samurai Shodown as Hibiki Takane
- Alchemy Stars as Lester, Sikare, Migard
- NEO: The World Ends with You as Kanon TachibanaFate/Grand Order as Izumo no OkuniUmamusume: Pretty Derby as Agnes Tachyon
;2023Blue Archive as Kasumi KinugawaMahjong Soul as Ransei
;2024Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth as Saeko MukoudaFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth as Kyrie Canaan
- Honkai: Star Rail as Obsidian
Overseas dubbing
;2016The Powerpuff Girls as Bubbles;2018Mutafukaz as Luna
;2019Valley of the Boom as Jenn
;2020Trolls World Tour as Pennywhistle
;2021Vivo as Gabi Arcane as Powder/Jinx
Tokusatsu
2021Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga as Carmeara Voice/Human Form2022Ultraman Decker as Carmeara Voice
Other works
Web radio
Web radio @ Dengeki-Bunko- ''A&G NEXT GENERATION Lady Go!!''