Hiroshi Nagano

is a Japanese actor and pop singer known for playing Daigo Madoka, the human host of Ultraman Tiga in his eponymous series. He is formerly a member of the boy band V6 and currently a member of 20th Century. He is affiliated with SMILE-UP (formerly Johnny's Office).
==Career==
Hiroshi Nagano is among the first who joined Johnny & Associates in 1986, at the age of 14. He quit Johnny's Jr in 1990 to continue his studies but rejoined in mid-1992. He is well-known for playing the lead role of Ultraman Tiga, reprising the role in subsequent movies and spin-offs until 2008's Great Decisive Battle! The Super 8 Ultra Brothers.
Due to his agency's strict rules, Nagano was cut from Ultraman Series media shown during Ultraman Chronicle Z: Heroes' Odyssey and Ultraman Chronicle D. The grunts he voiced for Tiga are also replaced with Yuji Machi's.
On November 1, 2021, with the dissolution of V6, Nagano's activities shifted to 20 Century and the individual domain. In 2023, due to the restructuring of Johnny's Office into SMILE-UP, Nagano also moved to this agency.
==Personal Life==
On November 29, 2016, Hiroshi Nagano announced that he was married to an actress named Miho Shiraishi through a fan club newsletter. They have two children.https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2149372/full/
==Roles==
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1996	Ultraman Tiga 	Daigo Madoka 	
1996	Ultraman Tiga 	Nagano 	Episode 49 "The Ultra Star"
1998	Ultraman Dyna 	Daigo Madoka 	Episode 50 "Final Chapter II: Solar System Annihilation"Episode 51 "Final Chapter III: Toward Tomorrow..."
2000	Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey 	Daigo Madoka/Ultraman Tiga	Voice (Ultraman Tiga)
2008	Great Decisive Battle! The Super 8 Ultra Brothers	Daigo Madoka/Ultraman Tiga	Voice (Ultraman Tiga)
===Stock grunts===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2000	Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey	Ultra-Ancient Giants of Light	
2011	Ultraman Retsuden 	Ultraman Tiga 	
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SHF-Tiga-PV-Hiroshi-Nagano.jpg|Hiroshi appearing in the promotional video for S.H.Figuarts Ultraman Tiga (Shinkocchou Seihou) in 2021
NHK-Ultraman-Popularity-Poll-Hiroshi-Nagano.jpg|Hiroshi appearing in a message for NHK's Ultraman Popularity Poll in 2022
==Trivia==
*According to an interview with the then-president of Tsuburaya Productions, Kazuo Tsuburaya, the decision to appoint Hiroshi Nagano as the main character was to invoke the image of a youthful protagonist. The character's first name, Daigo, was devised by the series' producer, Hiroyasu Shibuya.
*Hiroshi Nagano was meant to reprise his role as Daigo in Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna: Warriors of the Star of Light and Ultraman Tiga Gaiden: Revival of the Ancient Giant, but was unable to due to scheduling conflicts.
**Nagano was also meant to voice Ultraman Tiga in Revival of the Ancient Giant but this was scrapped for the same reason. However, he named Daigo's son, Tsubasa Madoka.
*Aside from Daigo, the only role that Hiroshi Nagano played was a character named Nagano in episode 49 of Ultraman Tiga, which was meant as a joke. Hiroshi Nagano claimed that if he were offered a role other than Daigo in the Ultraman Series, he would refuse it, saying "I do not want to appear in a role other than Daigo in the Ultraman Series".
*During an interview, Hiroshi Nagano stated that his favorite Ultraman is Ultraman Ace.
*In a magazine interview, Hiroshi Nagano said that Daigo was originally meant to have injured his foot in episode 15 and 16, but after telling staff that he had injured his left hand, the script was changed so Daigo's left hand was injured.
**Similarly, in episode 38, Nagano suffered from hay fever, so the director had Daigo also have hay fever.
*After the shooting of Ultraman Tiga had finished, the staff gave Nagano the Sparklence prop. According to him, it's the only one in the world, and it was reused in Great Decisive Battle! The Super 8 Ultra Brothers. The staff also wanted to give him Sherlock, the car used by GUTS, but he refused, stating that he couldn't use it in real life.
*Nagano likes cars and motorbikes. He obtained a large motorcycle license before 2002.
*Nagano's parents run a bicycle shop and Nagano is a qualified chef and vegetable sommelier. He often appears as a gourmet reporter or a judge during contests for professional chefs.
==References==
Category:Real Life People
Category:Actors
Category:Male Actors
Category:Singers