Yui Horie's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Vampire Knight Yuki Cross The Familiar of Zero Siesta Toradora! Minori Kush… School Rumble Eri Sawachika Bakemonogatari Tsubasa Han… Penguindrum Masako Nats… Higurashi no Naku Koro ni kai (JP) Hanyu Kanon (JP) Ayu Tsukimiya Pani Poni Dash! (JP) Miyako Ueha… Futakoi Kaoruko Ich… Argento Soma (JP) Sue Harris D.C. II: Da Capo II (JP) Kotori Shir… Inukami! (JP) Yoko Da Capo (JP) Kotori Shir… Miss Monochrome Miss Monoch… Mon Colle Knights (Dubbed) Rokuna Hiragi Kanamemo (JP) Haruka Nish… Kanon (JP) (2002) Ayu Tsukimiya Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto (JP) Urin Suzuki

Main Movie Roles

BIOGRAPHY:

Yui Horie (堀江 由衣, Horie Yui?) (born September 20, 1976) is a popular Japanese singer and voice actress. She is sometimes affectionately nicknamed "Hocchan" (ほっちゃん, Hotchan?) by her Japanese fans.

She hosts a radio show called "Horie Yui no Tenshi no Tamago" (堀江由衣の天使のたまご, "Yui Horie's Angel Eggs"?) and is the founding member of the singing group, Aice5. She is also a member of the band Kurobara Hozonkai, with the name YUIEL. Her hobbies include shoulder massage, reading and cooking.

Life and career
She debuted in 1997 in the video game Voice Fantasia and for several years had minor roles in various anime. She landed her first leading role as Haruka in Kurogane Communication. The turning point in her career was not until 2000, when she won the role of Naru Narusegawa in the popular anime Love Hina. Other notable and defining career moments were taking the role of Tohru Honda in the anime Fruits Basket in 2001, and releasing her 1st music album (Mizutamari ni Utsuru Sekai) in 2000. She has since become one of the most popular anime voice actresses in Japan.

Horie formed a temporary unit called Yamato Nadeshiko with the popular seiyū Yukari Tamura in 2001. They released two singles, "Mō Hitori no Watashi" (もうひとりの私?) and "Merry Merrily"—the latter of which was an insert song in the Love Hina Christmas Special.

In October 2005, she founded Aice5, a J-Pop group consisting of 4 other seiyū, to help launch their careers. Aice5 was officially disbanded on September 20, 2007.

She has collaborated with a few other artists, such as Unscandal in 2005 and Kurobara Hozonkai, a goth band in 2007.

She was employed by Arts Vision until mid-2007 due to a scandal within the agency's top management, at which point she left to become a freelance seiyū unaffiliated with any talent management firm.

She has published 7 independent musical albums. Nearly all of them incorporate at least one track from an anime she has worked with. She currently releases music under the Starchild label (a subdivision of King Records).

Her radio show is "Horie Yui no Tenshi no Tamago" (堀江由衣の天使のたまご?) and can be listened to on the station JOQR (文化放送?) (AM 1134 kHz) at 10:00 pm on Sundays.

Recently, she won for Best Supporting Female Seiyuu in the 4th Seiyuu Awards.


TRIVIA:

• Hobbies includes reading.