Tamae Ando is an actress, born on August 8, 1976, in Arakawa, Tokyo. She is married to Kuro Tanino, a playwright and director associated with the theater company Niwa Gekidan Penino. The couple has one child. She has been actively working as an actress since 2001 and is part of the MASH agency.

She was born into the family that owns a tonkatsu restaurant called Donpei, which appeared in the drama Kodoku no Gourmet. She graduated from Ogu Miyamae Elementary School, Ogu Hachiman Junior High School, and the Second High School of Nihon University. Dreaming of becoming a diplomat, she enrolled in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Sophia University but dropped out. She later graduated from the Faculty of Literature at Waseda University.

After graduation, she joined the theater troupe Potz Doll and began working as an actress. She was noticed by director Hiroki Ryuichi and invited to his first film, Vibrator, in 2003. After her film debut in 2003, she first appeared in a drama in 2004. She left Potz Doll in 2007 but still performs in theatrical productions, her last appearance being in 2015.