Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabeis a Japanese 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...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth21 October 1959
CityKoide, Japan
CountryJapan