1. Rinko Kikuchi is a Japanese actress, and was the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years, for her work in Babel.
20 Facts About Rinko Kikuchi
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Rinko Kikuchi is currently seen in the HBO Max crime drama series Tokyo Vice.
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Rinko Kikuchi was born on January 6,1981, in Hadano, Kanagawa, the youngest of three children.
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Rinko Kikuchi was discovered by a talent agent inside the shopping mall Laforet Harajuku at the age of 15.
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Rinko Kikuchi made her debut in 1999, under her birth name, Yuriko Rinko Kikuchi, with the Kaneto Shindo film Will to Live.
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In 2004, Rinko Kikuchi appeared in the well-received Katsuhito Ishii film The Taste of Tea, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
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In 2006, Rinko Kikuchi was chosen by Japanese film producer Yoko Narahashi for the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu film Babel, where she played Chieko Wataya, a troubled, deaf teenage girl, for which she received international attention.
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Rinko Kikuchi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Rinko Kikuchi was the fourth person in Academy Award history to be nominated for a role in which she does not speak.
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Rinko Kikuchi won several awards, such as the National Board of Review Award for Best Breakthrough Female Performance and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor.
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Rinko Kikuchi has appeared in two of Mamoru Oshii's films: The Sky Crawlers and Assault Girls.
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Rinko Kikuchi starred in Rian Johnson's second film, The Brothers Bloom, which was her first full English-language feature.
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In 2010, Rinko Kikuchi was cast as Naoko in Tran Anh Hung's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood.
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In 2014, Rinko Kikuchi starred in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, directed by David Zellner.
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Rinko Kikuchi was cast in the Season 2 of the HBO science fiction series Westworld.
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Rinko Kikuchi plays the role of Emi Maruyama, the supervisor of the lead character Jake Adelstein, in the 2022 HBO Max series Tokyo Vice.
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Rinko Kikuchi was appointed festival navigator, who "navigated" the audience at official events as the face of the festival.
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From 2010 to 2011, Rinko Kikuchi was in a relationship with director Spike Jonze, with whom she briefly resided in New York.
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Rinko Kikuchi married Japanese actor Shota Sometani on December 31,2014.
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In October 2016, Rinko Kikuchi gave birth to their first child.