
Haruka Kuroda
Acting
Biography
Haruka Kuroda (黒田 はるか, Kuroda Haruka) is a Japanese actress and presenter. She provided the voice of Noodle from Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's alternative rock virtual band Gorillaz from 2000 to 2017. She performed on all the Phase One tour dates as Noodle: She performed Noodle's speaking voice at all tour dates as well as Noodle's backing vocals, she was also playing the second guitar. (It is a popular misconception that Miho Hatori performed on the Gorillaz tour.) She is also the speaking voice of Noodle in Gorillaz' promotional interview CD, 'The Apex Tapes', as well as all live radio interviews and 'G-Bites' short films from Phase 1. She has also sung with JC Connington's rock group JUNKSTAR on the track Going Nowhere as well as featuring in various BBC productions. (Jonny Vegas's Ideal series 1,2 3,4,5 & 6 Jonathan Creek, Hiroshima & Brain-Jitsu). Her film credit includes Foster, Swinging with the Finkels, I Like London In the Rain & One Minute Past Midnight which won the short film of the year in 2005 at Chicago Film Festival. Haruka had a constant role in kids' gaming show PXG in 2005, where she hosts alongside Kentaro Suyama as the voice of 'Game Girl'. She works extensively as a voice-over artist like in the GameCube's 2005 Battalion Wars as the Solar Empire empress. Haruka moved to England in 1992 and trained at the Guildford School of Acting, graduating in 2000. She is also a master of the martial art Sanjuro, teaching regularly in London. Her versatile career has recently seen her working as an Intimacy Coordinator on Life After Life (BBC), Troubled Blood (BBC), Culprits (Disney+), a language coach to Oscar winning actress Alicia Vikander on the film Earthquake Bird (Netflix), Sidse Badette Knudsen on The Accident (Ch4), and dialect coach on Giri/Haji (BBC& Netflix).
Known For

The lives of five young villagers change forever when a strange and powerful woman arrives, claiming one of them is the child of an ancient prophecy with the power to tip the balance between Light and Dark forever. They must choose whether to trust this stranger – and each other – with the fate of the world before the Dark One breaks out of His prison, and the Last Battle begins.
The Wheel of Time

A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
Killing Eve

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
Jonathan Creek

Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.
Ideal

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Life

Sisters Josie and Billie and their single mother Deb navigate life armed with nothing but poor judgement and self-esteem exclusively tied to people who couldn't care less about them. They're vain, selfish, heavily in debt, pathologically desperate for affection and bursting with misplaced, terrifying love.
Such Brave Girls

Looking to adopt a child and unable to conceive a child of their own, the Morrisons' lives are turned upside down when a seven-year-old boy unexpectedly shows up on their doorstep.
Foster

Anna & Katy is a British comedy sketch show, beginning on Channel 4 on 6 March 2013 following a pilot edition as part of the Comedy Lab series in 2011. It features regular comedy partners Anna Crilly and Katy Wix, with regular guests including Lee Mack, whose sitcom Not Going Out Wix also stars in.
Anna & Katy

The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature what occurred aboard the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb) and inside the exploding bomb.
Hiroshima

OFFICIALLY AMAZING is a CBBC show that brings together the funniest, most ridiculous, scariest and AMAZING record attempts from around the world. The series was produced by Lion Television and all3 Media with Guinness World Records Limited and ran for seven series of varying lengths.
Officially Amazing

Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House is a Grammy Award nominated live DVD by Gorillaz, It compiles live performances by the band from the 1st through the 5th of November 2005 at the Manchester Opera House that recreated the Demon Days Studio album.
Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House

The set features songs from the Song Machine project, along with some revered classics from the group’s back catalogue. The full Gorillaz live band, plus a choice selection of featured artists, showcasing their first live performance since 2018. This special presentation also features a pre-show programme and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.
Gorillaz | Song Machine Live From Kong

On June 20, 2017, Gorillaz debuted an immersive 360-degree video experience in Cologne that fans all over the world were able to participate in. The show is a part of an album showcase series that includes similar performances in Budapest, Warsaw, and Katowice.
Gorillaz | Humanz Live in Cologne

Celebrity Takedown is a compilation DVD by Gorillaz, released in November 2002. The DVD compiles the videos and animatics related to the release of the band's first album, Gorillaz, as well as the related singles.
Gorillaz | Phase One: Celebrity Take Down

The virtual British band Gorillaz will bring their comic characters to life at Flow Festival 2022. As part of their Gorillaz European tour, they will be stopping off at Flow Festival in Helsinki. An event that matches the band's stature. Founded by Britpop legend Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewlett, the internationally acclaimed band Gorillaz has turned singer 2D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, guitarist Noodle, and drummer Russel Hobbs into international superstars. Since their debut album Gorillaz in 2001, the band has developed a unique universe in which visual art and visionary pop form the perfect chemistry, resulting in a continuous and relevant creation that audiences have been unable to get enough of since their formation in 1998. The Grammy and Brit Award-winning band has been named the world's most popular virtual band by The Guinness World Records.
Gorillaz | Flow Festival 2022

A documentary on the cryptic cartoon band, Gorillaz. From 2000-2006 director Ceri Levy filmed the creators behind the scenes, revealing the first drawings, animations and music, and following the evolution of the group through to the album Demon Days.
Bananaz

Gorillaz live stream event, SONG MACHINE LIVE!
Gorillaz Present: Song Machine LIVE

Recorded at The Roundhouse in London, UK on 30th April, 2010.
Gorillaz: Live at Roundhouse in London
The Gorillaz look for a new band member.
Gorillaz Talent Quest

These award-winning videos and hi-tech performances to their inventive animated shorts, acceptance speeches and more can be accessed through the interactive menu, a brand new 3D DVD reconstruction of Gorillaz' online hangout Kong Studios. Viewers can wander through this decaying palace of sin and watch the breathtaking live performances in the cinema, visit the band's bedrooms, tour the corridors and find games, original animatics, cameos from some of the Demon Days guests and off-color jokes galore.