Chieko Higashiyama

Biographie de Chieko Higashiyama

Chieko Higashiyama est née le mardi 30 septembre 1890 (Balance ♎) à Chiba, Japan et décédée le jeudi 8 mai 1980 (89 ans)

Chieko Higashiyama (September 30, 1890 – May 8, 1980) was a Japanese actress. Graduating from the girls' school at Gakushuin, she married a businessman in 1909 and spent eight years in Moscow. In 1925, at the age of 35, she decided to become an actress. She trained at the Tsukiji Shōgekijō, a pioneering theater then-famous for modern Japanese plays and translated performances of Western playwrights. Higashiyama appeared in many stage productions, most famously as Madame Ranevskaya in Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard." She also appeared in films, including Tokyo Story, which was voted the best film of all time in the 2012 Sight and Sound directors' poll.

Chieko Higashiyama est principalement connue pour ses rôles de "Tomi Hirayama" dans Voyage à Tokyo, "Nao Sugawara" dans La Princesse errante.