After graduating from Kyoto Prefectural First Girls' High School (present Tokyo Metropolitan Hakuo Senior High School), she was dropped out of the Japan Women's University Normal Department of Home Economics and entered the New Tsukiji Theater Company while attending school.
府立第一高等女学校（現東京都立白鴎高等学校）卒業後、日本女子大学師範家政学部を中退、在学中に新築地劇団に入る。