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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.
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 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. How do you feel about all this praise and the nominations you've been getting for your performance in Babel?
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 24, 2014 · Since netting an Oscar nomination for her astonishing performance as a troubled deaf teenager in Alejandro González Iñárritu’ s “Babel,” Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi has remained active ...
Actress Rinko Kikuchi has been bewitching the camera with her enigmatic presence since she was a teenager, working as a model and appearing in commercials in her native Japan.
