Acting

Megumi Hayashibara

Born Mar 30, 1967 · 59 years337 titles 227 movies · 110 TV

Biography

Megumi Hayashibara (林原めぐみ, Hayashibara Megumi, born March 30, 1967) is a Japanese voice actress, singer, radio personality, and lyricist from Tokyo. She is currently affiliated with Aksent. Her nicknames include: Megu-san, Megu-nee, Bara-san, Kakka, and Daijin. She is best known for her roles in Ranma ½ (as Ranma Saotome (female voice)), Neon Genesis Evangelion (as Rei Ayanami), Cowboy Bebop (as Faye Valentine), Slayers (as Lina Inverse), Detective Conan (as Ai Haibara), Pokémon (as Musashi/Jessie of Team Rocket), All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku (as Atsuko Natsume and her counterpart Atsuko Higuchi from the OVA Nuku Nuku Dash!) and Shaman King (as Anna Kyoyama). She is also a fully qualified and registered nurse.

Also known as

Хаясибара Мэгуми · 林原めぐみ · مگومی هایاشیبارا · 林原惠美

Born

Mar 30, 1967

Tokyo, Japan

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

335

Acting credits

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Directing

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Writing

11

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

1986 3 title(s)

1987 6 title(s)

1988 4 title(s)

1989 19 title(s)

1990 8 title(s)

1991 10 title(s)

1992 9 title(s)

1993 8 title(s)

1994 14 title(s)

1995 11 title(s)

1996 13 title(s)

1997 10 title(s)

1998 20 title(s)

1999 13 title(s)

2000 12 title(s)

2001 11 title(s)

2002 7 title(s)

2003 11 title(s)

2004 3 title(s)

2005 5 title(s)

2006 5 title(s)

2007 7 title(s)

2008 7 title(s)

2009 3 title(s)

2010 5 title(s)

2011 5 title(s)

2012 12 title(s)

2013 5 title(s)

2014 11 title(s)

2015 21 title(s)

2016 5 title(s)

2017 5 title(s)

2018 5 title(s)

2019 6 title(s)

2020 4 title(s)

2021 10 title(s)

2022 8 title(s)

2023 7 title(s)

2024 3 title(s)

2025 3 title(s)

2026 3 title(s)