Masako Ikeda
Born: 1939-01-01 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2026-03-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Masako Ikeda (池田 昌子, Ikeda Masako; 1 January 1939 – 3 March 2026) was a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator from Tokyo, Japan. She is most known for the roles of Reika "Madame Butterfly" Ryuuzaki in Aim for the Ace!, Nodoka Saotome in Ranma ½, Maetel in Galaxy Express 999, Michiko in Harmagedon, and for being the Japanese voice-over actress of Audrey Hepburn. Ikeda died from an intracerebral hemorrhage on 3 March 2026 at the age of 87.
Filmography
2018
- Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! as Mother of Ultra (voice)
- Kyoto Romance: An Eternal Story as MC
2012
- Space Brothers as Sharon Kaneko (voice)
2011
- Nichijou: My Ordinary Life as Narration (voice)
- Escape Game ZERO
2009
- Hello Anne: Before Green Gables as Narrator
- Galaxy Express 999: Beyond the Diamond Ring as Maetel (voice)
2006
- Ultraman Mebius Side Story: Hikari Saga as Mother of Ultra (voice)
- The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet as Maetel (voice)
- Ultraman Mebius Side Story: Hikari Saga - SAGA 1: Arb's Tragedy as Mother of Ultra (voice)
2004
- Monster as British Couple (voice)
2002
- Yukikaze as Jackson Lynn
2000
- Maetel Legend
- Maetel Legend as Maetel
1999
- Harlock Saga - The Ring of the Nibelungs as Maetel
1998
- Queen Emeraldas
- Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy as Maetel (voice)
- DNA Sights 999.9 as Narrator (voice)
1996
- X: The Movie as Tooru
- The Heroic Elegy of Confucius as Nanzi (voice)
1995
- Romeo's Blue Skies as Narrator (voice)
1994
- The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA as Mrs. Kogure (voice)
1992
- Silent Möbius 2 as Fuyuka Liqueur (voice)
1991
- Silent Möbius as Fuyuka Liqueur (voice)
- Miracle Psychicer Seizan as (Voice)
- Kayoko's Diary as Yoshi Nakane (voice)
- Kitty-Cat Fantasia as Saeko Kimura (voice)
- Seven Days War 2
1990
1989
- Ranma ½ as Nodoka Saotome
1988
- Fairy King as Queen Mab (voice)
1987
- Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth as Sumiko Fudou (voice)
- Phoenix: Space Chapter as Hi no tori
- Phoenix: Yamato Chapter as Phoenix
- I'm All Yours as Sakurako Mamiya
1986
- The Story of Pollyanna as Ruth Wetherby Carew (voice)
- Phoenix: Karma Chapter as Phoenix (voice)
- Saint Elmo - Apostle of Light as Fū the Alien (voice) / Yūki's Mother (voice)
1984
- Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature as Yoko Ishigami (voice)
- Ultraman Story as Mother of Ultra
1983
- Aura Battler Dunbine as Silky Mau
- Harmagedon as Michiko Azuma (voice)
1982
- Patalliro! as Etrange (voice)
- The Wonderful Adventures of Nils as (voice)
- Miracle of Love: Doctor Norman's Story
1981
- Queen Millennia as Cleopatra
- Adieu Galaxy Express 999 as Maetel (voice)
1980
- The Wonderful Adventures of Nils as Nils' Mother (voice)
- Toward the Terra as Mother Eliza (voice)
- Galaxy Express 999: Claire of Glass as Maetel (voice)
- Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Traveler Emeraldas as Maetel (voice)
- Galaxy Express 999: Can You Love Like a Mother?!! as Maetel (voice)
1979
- Galaxy Express 999: The Movie as Maetel (voice)
- Aim for the Ace! The Movie as Reika Ryuuzaki (voice)
- Galaxy Express 999: Can You Live Like a Warrior!! as Maetel (voice)
- Maegami Tarou as ツバメトビ
- Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Sealed Room of the Inner Chamber
1978
- Galaxy Express 999 as Maetel (voice)
- The Story of Perrine as Marie Paindavoine
- Shin Aim for the Ace! as Reika Ryuzaki / Madame Butterfly (voice)
1973
- Aim for the Ace! as Reika Ryûzaki
1972
- Pinocchio: The Series as Fairy