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, she has one younger brother and was formerly represented by Space Craft.

Career

At the age of fifteen she met her father's acquaintance production president, and debuted as a model at ''

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s. Since 1997, she has performed as a singer, releasing six single songs and one album from

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. As an actor, her primary roles have been as young office ladies, young wives,

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women, etc. She has appeared in female teams with Yuki Matsushita,

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and others. After getting married, she left the program on 4 June 2003 in order to concentrate on her music career. In the ''

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, Chiaki) had appeared, although only "Tanaka's wife" had not appeared for a long time. With the 2012 broadcast, in the office of the

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fighting Goriraimo.

Private life

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to the magazine ''Friday'' at the end of 2002, Tanaka told that "Masayuki and Oshima are my work colleagues to the last", but announced that they will get married in the public place at the end of May 2003, and married in June 2003. They gave birth to their first son in June 2004 and their second son in April 2008. They later divorced on 2 May 2017. Tanaka announced the divorce through the office and Tanaka had custody of their eldest and second son.

Casting works

Variety/music programmes

*''Cocorico Miracle Type'' ( CX, Apr 2001 – Jun 2003) *''Matahari'' (

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TV dramas

*''Watashi Umi'' (Sep 2003, CX) – as Sachiko *''Cocorico Miracle Type Drama Special'' "A Woman to be Beaten" (15 Feb 2006) Appearance for 2 years and 7 months *''Kaette ko sase rareta 33-bu Tantei'' (28 Mar 2009) Episode 10 as Crystal Fortress Misato *''Arienai!'' (3 Mar 2010,

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TV anime

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Films

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Stage

*''Job&Baby'' (2007 Production: Hiko Miyoshi

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Direct-to-video

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Discography

Singles

*Plum (21 May 1998) *Kanashii Uta (21 Nov 1998) *Hana Tsumami (21 Feb 2001) *Kizuato (22 Aug 2001) *Pistol (21 Aug 2002) *Hoshi no Tattoo (19 Feb 2003) *Natsu no Zangai (21 Aug 2003)

Albums

*''Renai Machine–Play Me'' (21 May 1997) mini album

Photo albums

*''15-sai -Super Fifteen-'' (Aug 1995: Scola issue) – in the name Shoko Iwasaki

Others

*Tomofumi Tanizawa 2nd full album ''Nihon ni Ochite kita Otoko'' (23 Feb 2011) **Co-written lyrics with recorded song "Kekkon desu", and participated in singing.

References

External links

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