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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).
She was the first Japanese actress to be nominated for the Oscars in 50 years, since Miyoshi Umeki. Other than that she had appeared in commercials, including ads for Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent, as well as Japanese soap operas.
She was the first Japanese actress to be nominated for the Oscars in 50 years, since Miyoshi Umeki. Other than that she had appeared in commercials, including ads for Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent, as well as Japanese soap operas.
Birthday: Jan 6, 1981. Birthplace: Hadano, Japan. As Chieko, the angry, deaf-mute teenager in director Alejandro González Iñárritu's revelatory motion picture "Babel" (2006), Rinko Kikuchi wowed...
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...
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...
Jan 16, 2007 · Midnight Eye had a chance to sit down with Rinko Kikuchi at the Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco, where the Babel crew returned to (one of) their roots.
