Ken Watanabe

Actor, Film actor

1959 –

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Who is Ken Watanabe?

Ken Watanabe 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 films Batman Begins and Inception. In 2014, he starred in the reboot of Godzilla, and lent his voice to the fourth installment of the Transformers franchise, Transformers: Age of Extinction as Decepticon turned Autobot Drift. He is set to make his Broadway debut this spring in Lincoln Center Theatre's revival production of The King and I in the title role.

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Born
Oct 21, 1959
Koide
Also known as
  • Watanabe Kensaku
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Ethnicity
  • Japanese
Nationality
  • Japan
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Lived in
  • Niigata Prefecture

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on July 23, 2013

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