Nanako Matsushima

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1973-10-13 (52 years old)

Place of Birth

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Nanako Matsushima

Biography

Nanako Matsushima (松嶋 菜々子 Matsushima Nanako, born October 13, 1973 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actress and model. She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. She was also a main character in A Story of Love, where she starred next to Hiroyuki Sanada, who also played Ryuji Takayama in Ring. On February 21, 2001, she married Takashi Sorimachi who co-starred with her in Great Teacher Onizuka. They have two daughters together, born on May 31, 2004 and November 30, 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nanako Matsushima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Acting

1998

Ring

as Reiko Asakawa

2008

Hana Yori Dango: Final

as Tsubaki Dōmyōji

1999

Ring 2

as Reiko Asakawa

2000

Whiteout

as Chiaki Hirakawa

2006

Murder of the Inugami Clan

as Tamayo Nonomiya

2010

Ghost

as Nanami Hoshino

2013

Shield of Straw

as Atsuko Shiraiwa

2014

When Marnie Was There

as Yoriko Sasaki (voice)

2007

Bizan

as Sakiko Kouno

1998

The Spiral

as Reiko Asakawa (archive footage) (uncredited)

1997

2018

The Crimes That Bind

as Hiromi Asai

2019

The World of Machida-kun

as Machida Momoka

2021

2020

AI Amok

as Nozomi Kiryu

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Anpan

as Yanai Tomiko [Takashi's mother]

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