Rie Miyazawa

Known for ActingBorn 1973-04-06 (age 53)Tokyo, Japan

Rie Miyazawa is a Japanese actress and former teen idol. She is regarded as one of Japan's top actresses, and her accolades include six Japan Academy Film Prizes and three Kinema Junpo Awards Miyazawa began her career as a child model, seeing wide exposure as the original face of Mitsui Rehouse, and made her acting debut in the 1988 film Seven Day's War, for which she won the Japan Academy Award for Newcomer of the Year at age sixteen. Her short-lived music career began with the single "Dream Rush" in 1989, and the next year she performed at the prestigious Kōhaku Uta Gassen television special. Miyazawa quickly rose to prominence as one of the top idols of the early Heisei period, attracting controversy for her 1991 nude photography book Santa Fe, which moved 1.5 million copies. Her personal struggles were further scrutinized, including a high-profile engagement to sumo wrestler Takanohana, a suicide attempt and battle with anorexia nervosa. By 1996, she went into hiatus and briefly resettled in San Diego. She took on a few television drama roles in the late 1990s, and returned to the big screen in the Taiwanese films The Cabbie (2000) and Peony Pavilion (2001). She co-starred in the highly-acclaimed 2002 film The Twilight Samurai, which marked a full-fledged comeback for Miyazawa and remains as her most recognizable role both domestically and internationally. She saw further success in The Face of Jizo and Tony Takitani (2004), and received several accolades for Pale Moon (2014) and Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016).Read more

Movies & web series

Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors

Saiyūki

The 13 Lords of the Shogun

SMAP×SMAP

Princess Go

Musashi

Asura

Blackboard

Guilty Flag

Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu

Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1

North Light

The Twilight Samurai

Genroku Ryoran

Last Man -FIRST LOVE-

I Am Makimoto

Precious Time

Her Love Boils Bathwater

The Naked Director

Who Do I Choose?

47 Ronin

Food Fight

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

The Sunday Runoff

The Cabbie

Natsumeke no Shokutaku

The Face of Jizo

Phoenix: Eden17

FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS

Pieta in the Toilet

Peony Pavilion

Basara: The Princess Goh

Tony Takitani

Queen of Mars

What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020

Hana

Too Young To Die!

Pale Moon

The Tale of Himeji Castle

Gelatin Silver, Love

Seven Days War

The Invitation from Cinema Orion

The Book of the Dead

Human Specimens

No Longer Human

Seven Days War

Kiki's Delivery Service

Gu Gu the Cat