Tanie Kitabayashi
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: 21 May 1911
Birth place: Tokyo, Japan
Known for: Acting
Movies known for
Musume no boken
My Neighbor Totoro
Red Bud and White Flower
Never Give Up
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Rikyu
Jūdai no yūwaku
Dolls floating down the river
The Insect Woman
Koibito
Beauty and the Thief
Farewell to Spring
Foundry Town
A Japanese Tragedy
Resurrection
White Beast
Children of Hiroshima
Conflagration
The Human Bullet
Apart from Life
All My Children
Only on Mondays
Letter from the Mountain
Station
The Heart
Hole in One
Blood and Sea
A Billionaire
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Writhing Tongue
Gassan
A Woman Called En
The Greatest Challenge of All
The Wild Daisy
Bonchi
Saigo no sentō-ki
Asu no hanayome
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Ashita au hito
男の哀愁
The Dawn of Judo
Related TV Shows
おくさまは18歳
Mayuko hitori