Tomoe Hatta (Japanese: 八田 友江, Hepburn: Hatta Tomoe; September 10, 1971 – August 13, 2025), known professionally as Tomo Sakurai (櫻井 智, Sakurai Tomo), was a Japanese actress and singer. Originally part of the idol trio Lemon Angel [ja], she started her voice acting career in the 1990s, starring as Mylene Flare Jenius in Macross 7, Meimi Haneoka in Saint Tail, Makimachi Misao in Rurouni Kenshin, the titular character of Super Doll Licca-chan, and Idolmaster: Xenoglossia (2007) and Cynthia in all Pokémon animated entries since Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl. She briefly came out of retirement during the last few years of her life, voicing Kaede in the 2024 anime Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again.

Tomoe Hatta, a native of Chiba Prefecture, was born on September 10, 1971, the youngest of four children. She graduated from Hinode Girls' High School [ja].

She became interested in "standing on stage" after seeing a musical Shonentai was performing in while in junior high school, and she applied for three auditions she saw in advertisements on Monthly Deview  [ja]. Having seen that her three older sisters begged their parents to let them fulfill their entertainment industry ambitions but were opposed, she auditioned without telling her parents. She passed all three auditions she applied to and joined L Staff Promotion, the first to contact her.

After working as a mascot girl for Kijima [ja]'s KISS Racing Team, Sakurai debuted in 1987 as a member of the idol group Lemon Angel [ja] with Miki Emoto [ja] and Erika Shima [ja]. The group disbanded in 1990.

In 1993, Sakurai made her official voice acting debut in the anime Dragon League [ja]. In 1994, she started voicing Mylene Flare Jenius in Macross 7, reprising the role in other anime projects and associated musical works. In 1995, she starred as Meimi Haneoka, the titular protagonist of Saint Tail. She also starred as Sulia Gaudeamus in Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (1994), Makimachi Misao in Rurouni Kenshin (1996), and the titular character of Super Doll Licca-chan (1998), and she voiced Marin in Akazukin Chacha (1994) and Shayla Shayla in El-Hazard (1995). She was known for being a pioneer of the multimedia "idol voice actor" around that decade, with Mikikazu Komatsu of Crunchyroll News citing her as a "successful [example] of a transition from idol to voice actor".

In the 2000s and 2010s, Sakurai voiced Chigusa Sakai in Shakugan no Shana (2005–2011), Azusa Miura in Idolmaster: Xenoglossia (2007), Cynthia in Pokémon (2007–2022), and Hinowa in Gintama (2009–2015).

Sakurai's 1995 Macross 7 album Milene Jenius Sings Lynn Minmay charted at #9 at the Oricon Albums Chart. She released two albums with Victor Entertainment: T-mode (1995; #39) and Cherry (1996; #26). She released another album with Pony Canyon, L.A.Early (1996; #44), as well as two best-of albums with Pioneer LDC: Actress (1996; #33) and Actress II (1997; #42).

Sakurai made her stage debut as Judy in a 1991 performance in Daddy Long Legs and played Beth in a 1992 production of Little Women, performing at 39 locations across Japan. She was part of the Kaoru Asakura [ja] Theater Company. She also starred in a musical adaptation of Saint Tail.