
Tanie Kitabayashi
Biography
Tanie Kitabayashi (北林谷栄, Kitabayashi Tanie, May 21, 1911 – April 27, 2010) was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the Mainichi Film Awards for Kiku to Isamu. She also won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress in Rainbow Kids (1991), a film that also earned her honors from the Mainichi Film Awards and from Kinema Junpo. She died on April 27, 2010, of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. She was 98.
Birthday
1911-05-21 (113 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Known as
Rikyu
as Mother
Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
Writhing Tongue
as Akira's mother
Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
Odd Obsession
as Hana
Buddha
as Sumi
Call from Darkness
as Sukeno