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 Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin Film Festival while her performance in '' Oh Lucy!'' (2017) earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress.

Early life

Her father is the

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actor , her mother the actress Sumiko Fuji, and her brother is the kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke V. She is also the granddaughter of Onoe Baikō VII, a renowned Kabuki actor considered one of the leading ''

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'' (i.e., a Kabuki actor who plays exclusively female roles) of the Showa era and father of Kikugorō VII (Terajima's father).

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) * '' Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles'' (2005) * ''

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'' (2005) * ''

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'' (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) * '' Flea-picking Samurai'' (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 * ''My Mom, My Angel: A Journey of Love and Acceptance'' (2024) * ''The Parades'' (2024), Kaori * ''Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality'' (2024), Ohyaku * '' Kokuho'' (2025), Sachiko Ōgaki

Television

* '' Ryōmaden'' (2010), Sakamoto Otome * '' Here Comes Asa!'' (2015), Rie Imai * ''The Supporting Actors 2'' (2018) * '' Idaten'' (2019), Tokuyo Nikaidō * ''Poison Daughter, Holy Mother'' (2019) * '' Earwig and the Witch'' (2020), Bella Yaga (voice) * ''The Supporting Actors 3'' (2021), Herself * '' Modern Love Tokyo'' (2022) * '' What Will You Do, Ieyasu?'' (2023), narrator/ Lady Kasuga

Honours

*Kinuyo Tanaka Award (2023)

Notes

References

External links

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