Toshiko Sato
Toshiko was born in London in 1975. Her parents moved to Osaka, Japan, in 1977, then back to the UK in 1986 (when speaking Japanese she does not have a noticeable Osakan accent, however). Her Japanese-born grandfather (born 20th January 1920) was a decoder at Bletchley Park and her parents were in the RAF. (TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts; however, her logout screen in "Exit Wounds" gives her date of birth as 19 September 1981 and REF: Torchwood: The Encyclopedia gives her birth year as 1975)
Around 2003 (TW: Fragments), though possibly in 2005 (TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts), Tosh worked at the Lodmoor Research Facility, run by the British Ministry of Defence. Blackmailed, with her mother's life in jeopardy, Tosh stole the plans to make a sonic modulator and successfully built one, even though the plans really shouldn't have worked. She was arrested by UNIT and held indefinitely without trial, and then saved by Jack Harkness. He complimented her on making a functional model with only the schematics available to her, and offered her a job with Torchwood as an alternative to spending the rest of her life as a prisoner in a UNIT holding cell.
Every year for a day, Torchwood 3 had woken up Tommy Brockless, a young World War I veteran frozen in 1918. During the four years that Toshiko had been working for Torchwood, she fell in love with him. (TW: To the Last Man)
The Ninth Doctor and Toshiko with the Space Pig (DW: Aliens of London) Toshiko met the Ninth Doctor in spring 2006 while examining an "alien pilot" in the mortuary at Albion Hospital, where she was covering for teammate Owen Harper, who was supposed to carry out the autopsy but was suffering from a serious hangover. (TW: Exit Wounds) She was slightly hurt when the creature turned out to be alive. She pretended to be a medic using the title "Dr Sato", displaying enough medical knowledge to determine that the alterations that had been done to the creature still hinted at alien involvement even if the creature itself was not an alien. (DW: Aliens of London)
Tosh always found Owen attractive. Despite this, Tosh had a lesbian affair, her first homosexual experience, with "Mary", a female alien who tried to use their relationship to gain access to her technology, which Torchwood had previously confiscated.
Tosh was shot by Gray while communicating via radio with Owen, talking him through his task of preventing a nuclear meltdown at a power station in Cardiff. She talked to Owen about how he would die from the meltdown and they discussed the date they had never gone on. Her wound was fatal and she died in Jack's arms after he arrived back at HQ with Gwen and Ianto. She told them how she had failed to save Owen.
As the team deleted Tosh's profile on the computer system, an automated video message she had recorded played (TWN: Pack Animals). In it, Tosh thanked Jack for saving her life, and proclaimed her love for Owen and the rest of the team. She reassured them that it was okay that she was gone (TW: Exit Wounds).
Around 2003 (TW: Fragments), though possibly in 2005 (TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts), Tosh worked at the Lodmoor Research Facility, run by the British Ministry of Defence. Blackmailed, with her mother's life in jeopardy, Tosh stole the plans to make a sonic modulator and successfully built one, even though the plans really shouldn't have worked. She was arrested by UNIT and held indefinitely without trial, and then saved by Jack Harkness. He complimented her on making a functional model with only the schematics available to her, and offered her a job with Torchwood as an alternative to spending the rest of her life as a prisoner in a UNIT holding cell.
Every year for a day, Torchwood 3 had woken up Tommy Brockless, a young World War I veteran frozen in 1918. During the four years that Toshiko had been working for Torchwood, she fell in love with him. (TW: To the Last Man)
The Ninth Doctor and Toshiko with the Space Pig (DW: Aliens of London) Toshiko met the Ninth Doctor in spring 2006 while examining an "alien pilot" in the mortuary at Albion Hospital, where she was covering for teammate Owen Harper, who was supposed to carry out the autopsy but was suffering from a serious hangover. (TW: Exit Wounds) She was slightly hurt when the creature turned out to be alive. She pretended to be a medic using the title "Dr Sato", displaying enough medical knowledge to determine that the alterations that had been done to the creature still hinted at alien involvement even if the creature itself was not an alien. (DW: Aliens of London)
Tosh always found Owen attractive. Despite this, Tosh had a lesbian affair, her first homosexual experience, with "Mary", a female alien who tried to use their relationship to gain access to her technology, which Torchwood had previously confiscated.
Tosh was shot by Gray while communicating via radio with Owen, talking him through his task of preventing a nuclear meltdown at a power station in Cardiff. She talked to Owen about how he would die from the meltdown and they discussed the date they had never gone on. Her wound was fatal and she died in Jack's arms after he arrived back at HQ with Gwen and Ianto. She told them how she had failed to save Owen.
As the team deleted Tosh's profile on the computer system, an automated video message she had recorded played (TWN: Pack Animals). In it, Tosh thanked Jack for saving her life, and proclaimed her love for Owen and the rest of the team. She reassured them that it was okay that she was gone (TW: Exit Wounds).
Naoko Mori
Naoko Mori (born November 19, 1971) is a British-Japanese actress known for roles as Sarah, Saffron's "odd" friend in Absolutely Fabulous, Mie Nishikawa in Casualty, and Toshiko Sato in Doctor Who and Torchwood.
Mori was born in 1971 in Nagoya, Japan, and grew up in Japan, New Jersey, USA, and London. When Mori was twelve, she moved to England. Her father was sent back to Japan when Mori was fifteen. She was then given the choice of either staying in London or moving back with her father. She chose to stay in England, partly because she wanted to finish her GCSEs and gain some qualifications.
Her father later opened a bank account for her, handed her a cheque book and told her to find a flat or a bed sit for herself to live in. Mori said that being on her own at such a young age helped her to be a very independent person, although it was still a scary world to be faced so young.
Mori was born in 1971 in Nagoya, Japan, and grew up in Japan, New Jersey, USA, and London. When Mori was twelve, she moved to England. Her father was sent back to Japan when Mori was fifteen. She was then given the choice of either staying in London or moving back with her father. She chose to stay in England, partly because she wanted to finish her GCSEs and gain some qualifications.
Her father later opened a bank account for her, handed her a cheque book and told her to find a flat or a bed sit for herself to live in. Mori said that being on her own at such a young age helped her to be a very independent person, although it was still a scary world to be faced so young.