Actor

Chieko Higashiyama

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Movies: 76Series: 2

TMDB ID: 134307

IMDb ID: nm0383261

Known for: Acting

Born: September 30, 1890

Died: May 8, 1980

Age: 89

Place of birth: Chiba, Japan

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1937 - 1971

Years active: 35

Average TMDB rating: 7.45

Wikidata: Q3667789

Also known as

Sen Watanabe

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Biography

Chieko Higashiyama (September 30, 1890 – May 8, 1980) was a Japanese actress. Graduating from the girls' school at Gakushuin, she married a businessman in 1909 and spent eight years in Moscow. In 1925, at the age of 35, she decided to become an actress. She trained at the Tsukiji Shōgekijō, a pioneering theater then-famous for modern Japanese plays and translated performances of Western playwrights. Higashiyama appeared in many stage productions, most famously as Madame Ranevskaya in Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard." She also appeared in films, including Tokyo Story, which was voted the best film of all time in the 2012 Sight and Sound directors' poll.

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