is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include '' Akame 48 Waterfalls'' (2003) and '' Vibrator'' (2003). For her role in ''

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'' (2010), Terajima won the

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at the

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while her performance in '' Oh Lucy!'' (2017) earned her an

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nomination for

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Early life

Her father is the

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actor Onoe Kikugorō VII, her mother the actress Sumiko Fuji, and her brother the kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke V.

Career

Terajima appeared in Shinobu Yaguchi's '' Happy Flight''.

Personal life

In 2007, she married Laurent Ghnassia, a French art director based in Japan. The couple have one son, born in 2012. In an interview with

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, Terajima stated that she is raising her son to be a kabuki actor.

Filmography

Films

* '' Akame 48 Waterfalls'' (2003) * '' Get Up!'' (2003) * '' Vibrator'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2004) * ''

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'' (2005) * ''

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'' (2005) * '' Yamato'' (2005) * ''It's Only Talk'' (2006) * ''Ai no Rukeichi'' (2006) * '' Happy Flight'' (2008) as Reiko Yamazaki * ''Rush Life'' (2009) * ''

'' (2010) * ''The Fallen Angel'' (2010) * '' 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate'' (2012) * '' Helter Skelter'' (2012) * '' Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship'' (2012) * ''The Millennial Rapture'' (2012) * ''Japan's Tragedy'' (2013) * '' R100'' (2013) * ''The Shell Collector'' (2016) * ''Star Sand'' (2016) * ''Haha'' (2017), Seki Kobayashi * '' Oh Lucy!'' (2017) * ''

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'' (2018), Omine * ''Sakura'' (2020), Tsubomi Hasegawa * ''A Family'' (2021) * ''It's a Flickering Life'' (2021) * ''Arc'' (2021) * ''Intolerance'' (2021) * ''2 Women'' (2022), Miharu Osanai * ''The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn'' (2022), Keiko Tenma

Television

* ''

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'' (2010), Sakamoto Otome * '' Here Comes Asa!'' (2015), Rie Imai * ''The Supporting Actors 2'' (2018) * ''

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'' (2019), Tokuyo Nikaidō * ''Poison Daughter, Holy Mother'' (2019) * ''

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'' (2020), Bella Yaga (voice) * ''The Supporting Actors 3'' (2021), Herself * ''Modern Love Tokyo'' (2022) * '' What Will You Do, Ieyasu?'' (2023), narrator

References

External links

*
shinobu terajima official website
1972 births Japanese film actresses Living people Actresses from Kyoto Silver Bear for Best Actress winners 21st-century Japanese actresses {{Japan-film-actor-stub