is a Japanese actress.
Career
Born in a rural area of
Nara Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,321,805 and has a geographic area of . Nara Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Osaka Prefecture to the ...
, Ono was spotted by the film director
Naomi Kawase cleaning out the shoe boxes at her junior high school, and cast in the lead role in Kawase's ''
Suzaku'',
which earned the filmmaker the
Camera d'Or at the 1997
Cannes Film Festival
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. Ono won the best actress award at the
Singapore Film Festival for her role.
After appearing in films by directors such as
Shinji Aoyama,
Akihiko Shiota,
Nobuhiro Yamashita, and
Isao Yukisada, Ono again starred in a Kawase film, ''
The Mourning Forest'', which won the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
Also appearing on television, Ono was selected in an audition of 1850 actresses to play the coveted lead role in
NHK's
Asadora
, colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring T ...
entitled ''
Carnation
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'' which began broadcasting in October 2011.
Selected filmography
Film
Television
Dubbing
*''
Minions: The Rise of Gru'' (Belle Bottom)
References
External links
Official profile
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Japanese actresses
1981 births
Living people
Actors from Nara Prefecture
Asadora lead actors