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Rinko Kikuchi is a famous Japanese actress. She had a role in Babel where she was the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award. She has also appeared in Norwegian Wood which was screened in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival. Moreover, Kikuchi had a role in Guillermo del Toro’s science fiction action film Pacific Rim.
Moreover, she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead in the drama film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter. In addition, she starred in the HBO Max crime drama series Tokyo Vice.
Rinko Kikuchi Age
She was born on January 6, 1981, in Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan. Kikuchi is 42 years old.
Rinko Kikuchi Height
She is a woman of above-average stature. Kikuchi stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx 1.70 m).
Rinko Kikuchi Family
She was born to her supportive parents in Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan. Kikuchi is the daughter of Ora Aselton and Carl Aselton. She holds Japanese nationality. She grew up with two older siblings. When she was 15, she was discovered by a talent agent on the street.
Rinko Kikuchi Husband
She is hitched to her loving husband Japanese actor Shōta Sometani on December 31, 2014. Shōta is a 30 years old Japanese actor from Koto, Tokyo. He is known for his role in Himizu and also Parasyte. The couple is parents of two are parents of two children first born in October 2016 and the other born in late 2018. Previously, she was in a two-year relationship with director Spike Jonze after meeting in 2009.
Rinko Kikuchi Education
Despite being a famous Japanese actress, she has kept details regarding her educational qualifications away from the public. Thus, there are no facts on the school attended.
Rinko Kikuchi Movies and Tv Shows
Movies
- Hole in the Sky as Taeko in 2001
- Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name as Number 51 in 2002
- The Taste of Tea as Yuriko Kikuchi in 2004
- Funky Forest: The First Contact as Kikuchi in 2006
- Babel as Chieko Wataya in 2006
- The Brothers Bloom as Bang Bang in 2008
- Map of the Sounds of Tokyo as Ryu in 2009
- At River’s Edge as Tazu in 2011
- 47 Ronin as Witch in 2013
- Nobody Wants the Night as Allaka in 2015
- Pacific Rim Uprising as Mako Mori in 2018
- In Love and Deep Water as Aina Horikawa in 2023
- 658 km, Yōko’s Journey as Yōko in 2023
Tv Shows
- Bakayaro! Special 2 in 1999
- kokiku in 2001
- Ai to Shihonshugi in 2003
- Liar Game 2 as Ryo Katsuragi from 2009 to 2010
- Gu-Gu Datte Neko de Aru as Chikako in 2014
- Westworld as Akane in 2018
- Invasion as Hinata in 2021
- Tokyo Vice as Eimi in 2022
- The 13 Lords of the Shogun as Noe in 2022
Rinko Kikuchi Pacific Rim
In 2013, she starred as Mako Mori in the American science fiction monster film, Pacific Rim. Mako is Raleigh’s co-pilot who lost her family in a Kaiju attack and was adopted by Pentecost. The film is set in the future when Earth is at war with the Kaiju, colossal sea monsters which have emerged from an interdimensional portal on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Moreover, Kikuchi reprised her role in Pacific Rim Uprising in 2018.
Rinko Kikuchi 47 Ronin
Kikuchi was added to the cast of 47 Ronin, the first English-language adaptation of the Chushingura legend, Japan’s most famous tale of samurai loyalty and also revenge in 2013 as Witch. The fantasy action film is about a fictionalized account of the forty-seven rōnin, a real-life group of masterless samurai under daimyō Asano Naganori in 18th-century Japan who avenged Naganori’s death by confronting his rival Kira Yoshinaka.
Rinko Kikuchi Westworld
Kikuchi had a casting role in the Season 2 of the HBO science fiction series Westworld as Akane in 2018. The dystopian science fiction western television series begins in Westworld, a fictional, technologically advanced Wild-West-themed amusement park populated by android “hosts”. Further, the series has 36 episodes in four seasons.
Rinko Kikuchi Tokyo Vice
In 2022, she had a starring role in the American crime drama television series, Tokyo Vice as Emi Maruyama. Emi is Adelstein’s supervisor, a composite of the various colleagues and supervisors who worked with real-life Adelstein during his career. Moreover, the series has eight episodes in season one.
Rinko Kikuchi Net Worth
Kikuchi is a famous Japanese actress with a net worth of $10 Million.
How Old Is Rinko Kikuchi
Kikuchi is 42 years old born on January 6, 1981, in Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan.
Who Is Rinko Kikuchi
Kikuchi is a famous Japanese actress. She had a role in Babel where she was the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award. She has also appeared in Norwegian Wood which was screened in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival. Moreover, Kikuchi had a role in Guillermo del Toro’s science fiction action film Pacific Rim.