is a Japanese actress and former fashion model best known for her role in the Japanese medical drama Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon. She also performs the voice of Black Widow in the Japanese-language releases of the Avengers film series. Career Yonekura studied classical ballet for 15 years from the age of five. Represented by the Oscar Promotion agency, she won a national young beauty award in 1992. In 1993, she started her career as a model, working for fashion magazines such as CanCam. She announced her intention to start her acting career in June 1999. Her acting debut was in the TBS television drama Koi no Kamisama (God of Love), and has appeared in many dramas ever since. Yonekura played the role of Roxie Hart in the Japanese-language production of Chicago in Tokyo 2008 and in 2010. She then learned the role in English and made her Broadway debut in 2012, reprising her role in July 2017, and again in July 2019. Filmography Television / Net Drama Koi no Kamisama (2000, TBS) Tenki-yoho no Koibito (2000, TBS) Hatachi no Kekkon (2000, TBS) Straight News (2000, NTV) Love Revolution (2001, Fuji TV) Hikon Kazoku (2001, Fuji TV) Pretty Girls (2002, TBS) Sonagi Special (2002, MBC / Fuji TV) Artificial Beauty (Seikei Bijin) (2002, Fuji TV) Musashi (2003, NHK) Okusama wa Majo (2004, TBS) Kurokawa no Techo (2004, TV Asahi), Motoko Haraguchi Kurokawa No Techo Special (2005, TV Asahi), Motoko Haraguchi Nyokei Kazoku (2005, TBS) Haru to Natsu Special (2005, NTV) Onna no Ichidaiki (2005, TBS), Haruko Sugimura Kemonomichi (2006, TV Asahi) Fushin no Toki (2006, TV Asahi) Warui Yatsura (2007, TV Asahi/ABC TV) Katagoshi no Koibito (9 episodes, 2007, TBS) Monster Parent (2008, Kansai TV) Kōshōnin (2008, TV Asahi) Koori No Hana (2008, TV Asahi) Kōshōnin 2 (2009, TV Asahi) Nasake no Onna (2010, TV Asahi) Hunter: Sono Onna-tachi, Shōkin Kasegi (2011, Fuji TV/Kansai TV) Atsui Kūki (2012, TV Asahi) 35-sai no Koukousei (2013, Nippon TV) Doctor-X season 1 (2012, TV Asahi), Michiko Daimon Doctor X season 2 (2013, TV Asahi), Michiko Daimon Kaseifu Wa Mita SP(2014, TV Asahi) Tsuyoki Ari SP (2014, TV Asahi) Outburn SP (2014, TV Asahi) Doctor X season 3 (2014, TV Asahi), Michiko Daimon Kaseifu wa Mita SP (2015, TV Asahi) Kagerou Ezu (2016, TV Asahi) Doctor X season 4 (2016, TV Asahi), Michiko Daimon Doctor X season 5 (2017, TV Asahi), Michiko Daimon Legal V