Rie Kugimiya

Rie Kugimiya (釘宮 理恵 Kugimiya Rie, born May 30, 1979) is a Japanese voice actress from Osaka, Japan.

She began her career as a seiyū in 1998. She has been featured as Tsundere protagonists such as Taiga Aisaka in Toradora! (for which she won the Best Actress award at the Seiyū Awards), Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière in The Familiar of Zero and Shana in Shakugan no Shana. Her versatility has allowed her to interpret other types of characters with equal mastery, including Happy in Fairy Tail, Nagi Sanzenin in Hayate the Combat Butler, Keenan Crier in Digimon Data Squad, Alphonse Elric and Catherine Elle Armstrong in Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, among many others.

In 2012, she began her career as a singer, recording several albums to date. She was the interpreter of several openings and endings of various anime in which she participated, such as Toradora! or The Familiar of Zero, among others.