Ken Watanabe

Born

Kensaku Watanabe , Koide, Niigata, Japan

Birthday

1959-10-21

Occupation

Actor

Spouse(s)

Yumiko Watanabe (div. 2005)
Kaho Minami (2005–present)

Years Active

1979–present

Ken Watanabe (渡辺謙, Watanabe Ken?, born October 21, 1959) 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 Moritsu 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 blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.

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