Sei Matobu

is a Japanese actress who is a former Hanagumi Top Star of the Takarazuka Revue. In addition to her stage roles, she has acted for television, feature films, radio and advertisements. She is represented by Watanabe Entertainment. Born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, she is nicknamed . Sometimes, she was called "Unta" in her early school days. She graduated from Nakanobu Gakuen High School (now Hōyū Gakuin High School). Biography timeline She learned ballet since she was a child. According to an interview from the Sankei Shimbun, her encounter of Takarazuka Revue was recommended from her friends in her third year of junior high school. "It was from a friend who got me into Takarazuka after seeing The Rose of Versailles (Tsukigumi, starring Mayo SUzukaze), and I was shown Kageki (a monthly magazine) without receiving it. I did not know about Takarazuka at all, but I decided to enter with that," she answered. She herself was against her interest ballet that started at the age of three, "I got taller and my balance became worse for becoming a ballerina, maybe it was because I thought that I could keep going. It is a wonderful magical edge," she explained her feelings that she did not keep continuing her ballet. In 1993, she made her second admission to the Takarazuka Music College. In March 1995, she joined the Takarazuka Revue Complex as a student in its Stage 81. Her score at the time of her entry was 12th out of 41 people.