is a Japanese actress from Yokosuka. After starring in several television dramas, she later moved towards voice acting, portraying Naru Kotoishi in Barakamon and Hijiri Mochizuki in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls. Biography Suzuko Hara, a native of Yokosuka, was born on 27 April 2005. After appearing in the 2010 TV series , she began appearing in dramas, and she was part of the regular cast of , , , and .

In June 2013, she starred as Myra in Lexus' A Better Tomorrow live-action animated shorts. In September 2014, she began voicing Pero in Ganbare! Lulu Lolo: Tiny Twin Bears. In February 2017, she was cast as Peso in Akindo Sei no Little Peso. In July 2019, she was cast as No-chan in the Kaiju Step Wandabada shorts as part of the Ultraman franchise.

In 2014, she portrayed Naru Kotoishi, one of the main characters of the anime Barakamon. Since Naru speaks the of the anime's main setting, the Gotō Islands, (the creator of Barakamon) originally intended to use standard Japanese for the anime due to the difficulty of speaking the dialect. However, Hara, who was then nine years old, was so good at speaking the dialect, Yoshino decided to instead have the dialect used in the anime. described her as "the one person that fans of the anime cannot help but remember".

On 22 December 2022, it was announced that she would play the role of Hijiri Mochizuki in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage. The same day, Barakamon subsequently trended on Twitter. Filmography Anime television 2014 Barakamon, Naru Kotoishi Ganbare! Lulu Lolo: Tiny Twin Bears, Pero 2017 Akindo Sei no Little Peso, Peso 2019 Kaiju Step Wandabada, No-chan 2027 Glasses with a Chance of Delinquent, Hiro Momose Original net animation 2013 A Better Tomorrow, Myra Video games 2022 The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage, Hijiri Mochizuki Live-action television 2010 , Miki 2011 Mitori no Isha , Yūri Kusama 2012 , Chiaki Tokuda , young Yōko Shirakawa 2013 , Ami Tamura Hiroshima Fukkō o Yumemita Otoko-tachi, girl exposed to the atomic bomb

, young Ai Satō Takanashi-san, Watashi no Ron-chan 2014 Bitter Blood, Chikako Inagi Garo: Makai no Hana, Karina (girl) , Chikage Okazaki , young Sanae Yoshida , Ai , child in wheelchair , Yukino Isonuma 2015 Bushi no Musume, young Etsuko , abducted child , Yotsuba Mitarai , Yōshō no Kidai 2016 , Chizu

Obama Daitōryō no Oridzuru, Sadako Sasaki , Ryōko Saotome 2017 , young Hinata , young Miyuki Etō

Live-action film 2012 A Terminal Trust 2013 Shield of Straw, girl 2014 Kiki's Delivery Service, young Kiki 2016 Night's Tightrope, young Atsuko Kusano 2017 Bokyo

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