- OOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!! Very well, Troper! Describe Maria Kawamura here!
GAH! Not the laugh, not the laugh! All right, I'll start describing so will you just shut up already!?
Born November 21, 1961 as Shigeyo Kawamura, her roles seem to be the candidate for The Scrappy like Quess, or a Ms. Fanservice woman with a Noblewoman's Laugh like Naga in Slayers. She can play Ax-Crazy people, too, like Asuka's mom Kyoko in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Married to Mamoru Nagano, the author of The Five Star Stories.
Notable roles:
- Angelique, Goddess Poitreene, and Mamelon in La Pucelle
- Chaos Rail in Super Robot Wars NEO
- Cherie Espoir, Kururu and Kurusale Cherie Marl Q in the Rhapsody/Marl Kingdom series.
- Chum Huau in Aura Battler Dunbine
- Lilith Fau, a blatant Expy of Chum in Heavy Metal L-Gaim
- Cleo (Donna Christie) in the Japanese dub of Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats (80s dub)
- Cynthia Fitzgerald in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
- Eudial in Sailor Moon S
- Frei (Freya) in Valkyrie Profile, Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, and Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume
- Hedwig von Trapp in Trapp Family Story
- Higgins Saz in Brain Powerd
- Jung Freud in GunBuster
- Kanna (Lorelei), Momi (Cheryl), and Makomo (Fennel) in Pokémon
- Koyori in Sengoku Cannon
- Kyōko Zeppelin Soryu in Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Maria in The Brave of Gold Goldran
- Masako Hojo and Shirin in Harukanaru Toki no Naka de
- Melmo in Marvelous Melmo (1998 redub; the role was played by Reiko Mutoh originally in 1971)
- Naga the Serpent in Slayers
- Quess Paraya in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack and Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash
- Beltorchika Irma in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
- Sofia in Battle Arena Toshinden
- Tamasaburou in Saber Marionette J
- Tart in Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger
- Usa-hime (Princess Vi) in Samurai Pizza Cats
- Yui Takanaka in Megazone 23
- Mokey Fraggle in Fraggle Rock (1985 NHK dub)
- The High Priestess in Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil
