japanese actress ( bear 1981 )
“ Yuriko Kikuchi ” redirects here. For the american dancer, see Yuriko ( dancer )Kikuchi Rinko. This article uses The native phase of this personal mention is. This article uses western name order when mention individuals. Rinko Kikuchi ( 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 bring in Babel ( 2006 ). Kikuchi ‘s other celebrated films include Norwegian Wood ( 2010 ), which screened in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival and Guillermo del Toro ‘s science fabrication action movie Pacific Rim ( 2013 ). For her function in the play film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter ( 2014 ), Kikuchi received an Independent Spirit Award nominating speech for Best Female Lead.

early life [edit ]

Kikuchi was born on January 6, 1981, in Hadano, Kanagawa, the youngest of three children. She was discovered by a talent agent on the street at the senesce of 15. [ 1 ]

career [edit ]

Kikuchi made her debut in 1999, under her birth name, Yuriko Kikuchi, with the Kaneto Shindo movie Will to Live. soon after, in 2001, she starred in the celebrated Kazuyoshi Komuri movie Sora no Ana ( 空の穴 ), which was featured at respective external festivals, including the Rotterdam Film Festival. In 2004, Kikuchi appeared in the well-received Katsuhito Ishii movie The Taste of Tea, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. [ 2 ] In 2006, Kikuchi was chosen by japanese film producer Yoko Narahashi for the Alejandro González Iñárritu movie Babel, [ 3 ] where she played Chieko Wataya, a trouble, deafen adolescent girl, for which she received international attention. [ 2 ] She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. [ 4 ] Kikuchi was the one-fourth person in Academy Award history to be nominated for a character in which she does not speak. She won several awards, such as the National Board of Review Award for Best Breakthrough Female Performance ( tying with Jennifer Hudson ) and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor. She has appeared in two of Mamoru Oshii ‘s films : The Sky Crawlers ( 2008 ) and Assault Girls ( 2009 ). Kikuchi starred in Rian Johnson ‘s second film, The Brothers Bloom ( 2009 ), which was her first full English-language feature. Though she plays a main quality, she only speaks three words ; her character is said to only know three words of English. In 2010, Kikuchi was cast as Naoko in Tran Anh Hung ‘s adaptation of Haruki Murakami ‘s novel Norwegian Wood. In March 2011, she was added to the form of 47 Ronin, the beginning English-language adaptation of the Chushingura legend, Japan ‘s most celebrated narrative of samurai loyalty and retaliation. [ 5 ] Kikuchi described her villain character to the american adaptation of Glamour as “ a real gripe. ” [ 1 ] In 2013, she appears in Pacific Rim, having improved her english by watching the american television receiver series The Voice. [ 1 ]

In 2014, Kikuchi starred in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, directed by David Zellner. Kikuchi was cast in the Season 2 of the HBO skill fiction serial Westworld .

personal life [edit ]

After meeting in 2009, Kikuchi was in a two year relationship with director Spike Jonze, with whom she briefly resided in New York. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Kikuchi married japanese actor Shōta Sometani on December 31, 2014. [ 8 ] In October 2016, Kikuchi gave parturition to their foremost child. [ 9 ] Their moment child was born in late 2018. [ 10 ]

Filmography [edit ]

film [edit ]

television [edit ]

Year Title Role
1999 Bakayaro! Special 2
1999 Kawaii dakeja Dame kashira
2001 Chura-san
2001 kokiku
2002 The Private Detective Mike Hama
2003 Uchu ni Ichiban Chikai basho
2003 Ai to Shihonshugi
2004 Ryu
2009–10 Liar Game 2 Ryo Katsuragi
2010 Moteki Naoko Hayashida
2014 Gu-Gu Datte Neko de Aru Chikako
2015 To Give a Dream Mikiko Abe
2018 Westworld Akane
2019 Chou no Rikigaku Machiko Aiba
TBA Tokyo Vice

Awards and nominations [edit ]

References [edit ]

foster read [edit ]

  • Morris, Jerome C. “Exposed! Interview with Rinko Kikuchi”. Asian Cult Cinema. 55.