Tomomi Sato

She was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.{{cite web |title=健康鼎談 |url=https://www.sizenyaku.com/images/syujii/teidan.pdf |website=www.sizenyaku.com |access-date=21 March 2023 |language=ja}}{{cite book|title=役者烈々 俳優座養成所の軌跡』, 三一書房 |publisher=佐貫百合人 |access-date= |date=1995}} She attended Kinjo Gakuin University junior college, but eventually dropped out. She is a natori (Japanese equivalent of "Master's degree" in Japanese classical dance){{cite web |title=KYŌ NO KAI: GRANTED NATORI |url=https://www.kyonokai.org/natori-corner |website=www.kyonokai.org}} of the Japanese dance Nagoya Nishikawa.

She attended the Haiyuza Theatre Company週刊テレビ番組（東京ポスト）1983年7月15日号 p.22 (with Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Tetsuo Ishidate, Orie Sato, Katsutoshi Shin, Mieko Yuki, Junko Maya, among others).タレント情報（フジ『テレビナイトショー』） 佐藤友美 『素人の味出したい 西川流も披露します』”. 東京タイムズ (東京タイムズ社): p. 10. (1969年12月1日) Thereafter she joined the theater company Sankikai, and signed a contract with Shochiku.

From November 1969, she succeeded Mitsuko Baisho, serving as the hostess of the TV Night Show (Fuji TV) until March 1970. In 1978 she portrayed "Madame Maigret" in the Japanese TV series Tokyo Megure Keishi, based on Georges Simenon's Jules Maigret.{{cite book |last1=中村敦夫 |title=俳優人生 振り返る日々 |date=2000 |publisher=朝日新聞社 |isbn=9784022575517 |page=254 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpovAQAAIAAJ |language=ja}}{{cite book |last1=東京ニュース通信社 |title=テレビドラマ全史, 1953-1994 TV ガイド |date=1994 |publisher=東京ニュース通信社 |page=698 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HCEQAQAAMAAJ |language=ja}} For her portrayal of Mrs. Maigret in this series, she was praised by Simenon himself, who considered her "Madame Maigret" the best he had ever seen.{{Cite web |url=http://www.trussel.com/maig/gauteure.htm |title=A picture of Kinya Aikawa as Maigret/Megure, and Simenon's quote from La Revue du Cinéma nº 454, November 1989. Article retrieved on Trussel.com |access-date=12 March 2011 |archive-date=11 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511041158/http://www.trussel.com/maig/gauteure.htm |url-status=live }}

Sato has appeared in many movies and television series, and is well known for her beauty and voice.裸の季節(7) 松竹 佐藤友美 国際級の"ボイン" 着物なんて窮屈でイヤ”. スポーツニッポン (スポーツニッポン新聞社): p. 12. (1969年5月22日) Her role in Please say hello to men is representative of her work.

When she was 38 years old, she was interviewed by the Asahi Shimbun, and it then turned out that it had been incorrectly written that she was 48 years old in her biography. A corrected version was published immediately thereafter. She also ended up writing an article in a weekly magazine where she wrote that she was an "actress who had the Asahi Shimbun of Japan correct her."

Her blood type is O. She is {{height|m=1.65}} tall. In 1969, her three sizes were B85cm, W58cm, H88cm.“裸の季節(7) 松竹 佐藤友美 国際級の"ボイン" 着物なんて窮屈でイヤ”. スポーツニッポン (スポーツニッポン新聞社): p. 12. (1969年5月22日)“タレント情報（フジ『テレビナイトショー』） 佐藤友美 『素人の味出したい 西川流も披露します』”. 東京タイムズ (東京タイムズ社): p. 10. (1969年12月1日)

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