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Known For
Acting
Born
October 21, 1959
(65 years old)
Place of Birth
Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Popular Genres
Drama
Action
Adventure
Career Span
– Present
Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe (born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.
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Personal Info
Born
Oct 21, 1959
From
Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Acting
Career
– Present
Known For
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Nominations
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