Known For: Japanese actress
Category: Actresses
Country: Japan
City: London
Date of Birth: Saturday, 10 April 1976
Language Japanese
Yoshino Kimura is a Japanese actress and singer. She appeared on an episode of the Showtime series Masters of Horror. Kimura won the "Rookie of the Year" prize at the 21st Japan Academy Awards for her appearance in Shitsurakuen.
| BirthPlace | United Kingdom |
| Spouses | Noriyuki Higashiyama |
| Website | http://www2.topcoat.co.jp/kimura_en/top/index.php |
| Wikipedia | Yoshino_Kimura |
Kimura appeared as Shizuka in the recent spaghetti-western Sukiyaki Western Django. As of 25 June 2007 she was slated to star in a new Japanese soap opera to be set in Australia. Kimura also voiced Master Tigress in the Japanese dub of Kung Fu Panda and Kung Fu Panda 2. She also appears in Blindness as the First Blind Man's Wife. On 24 October 2010 she married Noriyuki Higashiyama. In 2007, Kimura took the title role in a TV Asahi tanpatsu (単発, TV movie), entitled Teresa Teng Monogatari (テレサ・テン物語), portraying the late Taiwanese superstar, who was (and continues to be) popular throughout Asia. She played Kazusa Monzen and Aoi Monzen in the 2008 film Orochi: Blood. She also did the voice of Claire Folley in the game Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.
