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Naomi Yamato
Non-Union
Naomi Yamato was born in Hakodate, Japan. After high school, she moved to Sapporo and pursued a career as a TV reporter. There, Naomi was on The Morning Show as a weather reporter every weekday for five
years, accumulating more than a thousand live show appearances. During these five years, she did radio and video commercials, event MCs, and various narrations for corporate programs and promotionals.
Naomi moved to Vancouver, Canada in 1991 to study English. She continued to work as an MC in Japanese and English for live events, while adding singing for independent films, voice over and narration to her resume. She made her comedy debut with stand up comedy at Vancouver’s Yuk Yuk’s. Naomi’s film and television debut was on the Apple TV drama Pachinko as a Japanese TV reporter.