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林原めぐみ

(Megumi Hayashibara)

Prolific Japanese voice actress and recording artist Megumi Hayashibara was born March 30, 1967 in Tokyo. While studying to become a nurse, she answered an advertisement to audition as a voice actor. She started to book small parts, and though she eventually earned certification as a nurse, she was already so successful in her voice career that she never worked in that field. She had been working steadily since the mid-1980s when, in 1995, she landed the part she would arguably become most associated with, Rei Ayanami in the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. She would...