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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 work in Babel (2006).
Rinko Kikuchi. Actress: Babel. Rinko was born Kikuchi Yuriko in Hadano just south of Tokyo. The town is known mainly for its green tea and public baths. She is the youngest of three siblings. After being scouted on the street, she began modeling in her hometown and subsequently began acting under her birth name before switching to Rinko.
Rinko Kikuchi. Actress: Babel. Rinko was born Kikuchi Yuriko in Hadano just south of Tokyo. The town is known mainly for its green tea and public baths. She is the youngest of three siblings. After being scouted on the street, she began modeling in her hometown and subsequently began acting under her birth name before switching to Rinko.
As Chieko, the angry, deaf-mute teenager in director Alejandro González Iñárritu's revelatory motion picture "Babel" (2006), Rinko Kikuchi wowed critics and earned Oscar and Golden Globe ...
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.
May 21, 2018 · Rinko Kikuchi began her acting career in Japan, but she arrived on the international scene with a stunning performance in Babel —one that earned her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar...
Jul 28, 2023 · The Oscar-nominated actor plays a socially isolated woman who attempts to hitchhike her way to her estranged father's funeral in Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s powerful road movie.
Rinko Kikuchi debuted in 1999 under her birth name, Yuriko Kikuchi (菊池 百合子), in the Kaneto Shindo-directed film Ikitai (生きたい). She is married to actor Shota Sometani.
Jan 10, 2012 · Rinko Kikuchi NORWEGIAN WOOD, 47 RONIN, and PACIFIC RIM Interview. Norwegian Wood is a tale of loss and sexuality set in Tokyo in the late 1960s.
Mar 21, 2015 · Since grabbing international attention with her Oscar-nominated role in Babel, Rinko Kikuchi has made an international career out of strange and often silent characters. Her latest film, Kumiko...
