Who's that Ana? Now we know!

I meant to leave any new posts for that long-awaited (long long long long looooong-awaited) new Encyclopedia excerpt, but this news is just too cool not to give an update on:

The girl who played Ana in the famous MOTHER TV commercial has been identified in this Reddit post!

Reddit user u/No_Kaleidoscope_4359 gives us this info:

I am not very familiar with this game, but a kind redditor helped me find this lost ad my mom has talked about for years. My mom was a model in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s while my grandfather served in the US Navy. She always told me about one of her favorite projects, and advertisement where she got to fight a giant robot. I was so excited to come across more of the digital media from this project!

My mom also did some projects with Sega Genesis, and a few other things with Nintendo that I'm trying to find. Her name, at the time, was Laurel Dollahon. If anybody has any more pictures from production or anything like that, let me know! She would be tickled to see them!

She doesn't remember who the other two kids were, but this was an unexpected and very pleasant surprise, especially to learn how fond she must be of the memory of working on the MOTHER commercial, if she's talked about it so much for years!