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Film & TV
Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan
Rinko Kikuchi, born Yuriko Kikuchi, January 6, 1981, is a Japanese actress. Kikuchi is the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. She is currently Japan's only living female Academy Award nominee in acting categories. The only other nominee was Miyoshi Umeki, who won the Best Supporting Actress award in 1957 for Sayonara.
Known for
- Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! — Haru2026
- いのこりぐみ2026
- Uso ga Uso de Uso wa Uso da — Mitsuko Omori2026
- Ya Boy Kongming! The Movie — Ayvil Suzuki2025
- The Hot Spot — Masako Umemoto2025
- Trespassers — Tanaka Akiko2024
- That Person Has Disappeared — Terada2024
- Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out — Shosenkyo Reiko2024
- Yoko — Yoko2023
- Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter — Kitashiro Urara2023
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Key facts
- Born
- Yuriko Kikuchi , ( 1981-01-06 ) January 6, 1981 (age 45) , Hadano, Kanagawa , Japan
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1999–present
- Height
- 1.69 m (5 ft 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Spouse
- Shōta Sometani ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. December 31, 2014</span>"}]]}'>2014 )
- Website
- www .rinkokikuchi .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Hadano
- Spouse
- Shōta Sometani
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Japanese
- Official website
- www.rinkokikuchi.com
- Image
- Rinko Kikuchi Berlin 2015.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- Rinko Kikuchi
- date of birth
- 1981-01-06
- name in kana
- きくち りんこ
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- name in native language
- 菊地凛子
- start of work period
- 1999-00-00
- social media followers
- 54431
- birth name
- 菊地 百合子
- ethnic group
- Japanese people
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Encyclopedic overview
Rinko Kikuchi (pronunciation) (菊地 凛子, Kikuchi Rinko; born Yuriko Kikuchi (菊地 百合子, Kikuchi Yuriko), January 6, 1981) is a Japanese actress. She was the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years, for her work in Babel (2006). Kikuchi's other notable films include Norwegian Wood (2010), which screened in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival and Guillermo del Toro's science fiction action film Pacific Rim (2013). For her role in the drama film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014), Kikuchi received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. She played a supporting role in the HBO Max crime drama series Tokyo Vice.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rinko Kikuchi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.