Naoko Mori Biography

Fast Facts

• Originally wanted to be a singer and started training as a classical singer when she was 11 years old
• Quote: "I love people and I want to tell people's stories and I think that was the thing for me, becoming an actor and sort of trying to understand people․"
• Quote: "People are the same․ They're different but the same, whatever country you may be in, whatever creed, color, religion you are, people are at the end of the day the same․"
• Played Christmas Eve in a West End production of "Avenue Q," beginning in 2006
• Played the intelligent, tech-savvy Tosh on both "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood․"
• Enjoyed watching black and white movies when she was younger, watching them almost exclusively for a time
• Spent her childhood moving between Japan, New Jersey and London
• Voiced a villainess named Mai Hem in the video game "Perfect Dark Zero․"
• When she received her first script for "Doctor Who" she was confused about some of the terminology familiar to the show's fans and tried to look up what a tardis was in the dictionary
• Attended the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International