Donna Burke

Donna Burke is a Western Australian singer, actress and writer who has lived in Tokyo since 1996.

She first came to prominence in 2001 acting in Silent Hill 2 (Angela) and Silent Hill 3 (Claudia).

In 2012, Hideo Kojima, the director of Metal Gear Solid, asked her to sing “Sins of the Father” for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and voice the iDroid role.

Since 2017 she has toured with “Metal Gear in Concert”, performing with orchestras in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Osaka and Tokyo.

Donna performs with the Tokyo Comedy Store Improvazilla Show.

Her voice-acting credits include ARMS (Doctor Coyle) Fitboxing / Fitboxing 2 (Laura), Metal Gear Solid (iDroid) and Magical Lyrical Nanoha (Raising Heart), but her most famous voice job is her English announcements on the Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka and Kumamoto, which she has been doing since 2004.

In 2005 she founded Hotteeze Heat pads which are sold in pharmacies throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Donna has one feature film and two TV-series in development.