Native name 東山 千栄子 Name Chieko Higashiyama Nationality Japanese Role Film actress | Occupation Actress Parents Toru Watanabe Years active 1925-1980 | |
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Born 30 September 1890 Chiba, Japan Died May 8, 1980, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Movies Tokyo Story, Early Summer, The Idiot, The Tale of Genji, The Princess Sen Similar People Sugimara Haruko, Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu, Masaichi Nagata, Fumio Hayasaka | ||
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Chieko Higashiyama (東山 千栄子, Higashiyama Chieko, 30 September 1890 – 8 May 1980) was a Japanese stage and film actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1936 to 1967.
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Career
Graduating from the girls' school at Gakushuin, she married a business man in 1909 and spent eight years in Moscow. In 1925, at the age of 35, she decided to become an actress and began training at the Tsukiji Shōgekijō. She appeared in many stage productions, most famously as Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard. She also appeared in films.
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