Junko Takeuchi

Junko Takeuchi (竹内 順子) is a Japanese actress and voice actress employed by Ogipro The Next Co. Inc. & BQMAP.

Taking a well-trod path by many voice actresses, she often voices young male characters with generally very quirky and goofy personalities.

She enrolled in 1991 at Nihon University, College of Art but dropped out two years later.

For several years she worked as a shoe salesperson and gave piano lessons at a private school in Tokyo.

Originally she wanted to work in a bank office.

In 1996 she joined BQ MAP Theater Company where she had several stage appearances.

One of her most well-known roles includes Naruto Uzumaki from the popular anime series Naruto. She has played Takuya Kanbara in Digimon Frontier, Rin Natsuki/Cure Rouge in Yes! PreCure 5, Metabee in Medabots, Mamoru Endou in Inazuma Eleven and Inazuma Eleven GO, Gon Freecss in the 1999 version of Hunter × Hunter, MrBeast in the Japanese dub of MrBeast and GingerBrave in the Japanese dub of Cookie Run: Kingdom.

She is the youngest of three children.

As a child she studied ballet and piano for seven and a half years.

She met voice actor Kenji Hamada in 1999.

They married in 2006.

Their first child was born in 2012 and the other one in 2017.