Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1973-04-06 (Age: 53)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Rie Miyazawa
Biography
Rie Miyazawa is a Japanese actress and former teen idol. She is regarded as one of Japan's top actresses, and her accolades include six Japan Academy Film Prizes and three Kinema Junpo Awards Miyazawa began her career as a child model, seeing wide exposure as the original face of Mitsui Rehouse, and made her acting debut in the 1988 film Seven Day's War, for which she won the Japan Academy Award for Newcomer of the Year at age sixteen. Her short-lived music career began with the single "Dream Rush" in 1989, and the next year she performed at the prestigious Kōhaku Uta Gassen television special. Miyazawa quickly rose to prominence as one of the top idols of the early Heisei period, attracting controversy for her 1991 nude photography book Santa Fe, which moved 1.5 million copies. Her personal struggles were further scrutinized, including a high-profile engagement to sumo wrestler Takanohana, a suicide attempt and battle with anorexia nervosa. By 1996, she went into hiatus and briefly resettled in San Diego. She took on a few television drama roles in the late 1990s, and returned to the big screen in the Taiwanese films The Cabbie (2000) and Peony Pavilion (2001). She co-starred in the highly-acclaimed 2002 film The Twilight Samurai, which marked a full-fledged comeback for Miyazawa and remains as her most recognizable role both domestically and internationally. She saw further success in The Face of Jizo and Tony Takitani (2004), and received several accolades for Pale Moon (2014) and Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016).
Filmography (52)
Numb
2026
Last Man -FIRST LOVE-
2025
リア王
2025
昭和から騒ぎ
2025
オーランド
2024
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower
2023
The Moon
2023
I Am Makimoto
2022
The Sunday Runoff
2022
Independence of Japan
2020
What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
2020
Seven Days War
2019
No Longer Human
2019
Her Love Boils Bathwater
2016
