Haruka Abe

Haruka Abe (安部 春香, Abe Haruka) is a Japanese–English actress. She appeared in BBC's Ideal as Miko,[1] and as Marti in Sleepydog's science-fiction TV series Slingers directed by Steve Barron.[2] She also appeared in the video for Clean Bandit's song "Rather Be" which has gained over 570 million views on YouTube as of April 2020.[3]

Haruka Abe
Born (1988-01-08) 8 January 1988
Nerima, Tokyo, Japan
OccupationActress
Years active2006–present

Born in Nerima, Tokyo, she spent her youth split between the US, UK, and Japan.[4] She trained at Rose Bruford College in South East London.[4]

In 2018, she became the new speaking voice of Noodle from the virtual band Gorillaz.[5]

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2007–2011 Ideal Miko
2008 The Things I Haven't Told You Sarah Kells
2009 Casualty Mika
2009 Slingers (Pilot) Marti
2009 Wire in the Blood Japanese waitress
2012 My Phone Genie Naoko
2014 Doctors Jenny
2014 Edge of Heaven Tammy
2015 Cuffs Mikki
2015 Cucumber Anna
2015 Cyberbully Jennifer
2017 Emerald City Po
2017 Zapped Henchwoman
2018 Kiss Me First Tippi
2018 Stath Lets Flats Tomoko

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2011 Stanley Pickle Bluebell
2012 Scopia Keiko
2012 47 Ronin Mika's handmaiden
2013 About Time Japanese girl
2014 The Knife That Killed Me Serena
2015 Random 11 Mitsuko Unagi
2017 She's Just A Shadow Tanya
2021 Snake Eyes Post-production

Music videos

Year Song Singer/Band Notes
2014 Rather Be Clean Bandit

Video games

Year Title Voice role Notes
2016 Late Shift May-Ling Full motion video
gollark: skynet.pongReceive is...?
gollark: Wow!
gollark: A thing for tracking players' locations.
gollark: https://dynmap.switchcraft.pw and we have various things using its API.
gollark: Mostly because of this bug, probably.

References

  1. "Ideal: character guide". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2014-09-16.
  2. "Slingers". Sleepydog. Archived from the original on 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2014-09-16.
  3. Clean Bandit (5 December 2013). "Clean Bandit - Rather Be ft. Jess Glynne [Official Video]" via YouTube.
  4. "Haruka Abe". Official website. haruka4be.com. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
  5. "LEFT HAND HARUKA METHOD: The Haruka Kuroda Interview". Hallelujah Monkeyz: The Gorillaz Fancast. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
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