Ken Watanabe

Acting

Born: 1959-10-21

From: Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

Gender: Male

Height: 184.00 m

Popularity: 3.5

Also Known As

渡邊謙渡辺謙کِن واتانابهک ِن واتانابهKensaku WatanabeKen Watanabe

Biography

Ken Watanabe (born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.

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Awards & Nominations2 won · 2 nominated

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

2015

🏆 Won

Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor

2007

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Last Samurai

2004

🏆 Won

Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year

1987

Ken Watanabe

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations2 won · 2 nominated

Acting97 titles

A School Behind Bars

Baian the Assassin

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

The Final Piece

Unbound

Samurai Vengeance

The Whispered City

NHK WORLD PRIME

Masamune Shogun

Kekkon Annai Mystery

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

Inception

Segodon

Alice in Borderland

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

True Love: Making The Creator

Oda Nobunaga

Kokuho

Gokenin Zankuro

Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko

Back of Father

Hanekonma

Hojo Tokimune

TRUE COLORS

Tokyo Vice

Tampopo

Isle of Dogs

Batman Begins

Drowning Fish

Evolution Within Extinction

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

The Last Samurai

Earth

Memoirs of a Geisha

Letters from Iwo Jima

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

T.R.Y.

Kensuke's Kingdom

Ashes and Snow

The Sea and Poison

The Creator

Unforgiven

劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編

The King and I

Toubousha

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Rage

Commando Invasion

The Unbroken

All Lives

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Fukushima 50

Godzilla

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

The Sea of Trees

Shanghai

Space Travelers

Memories of Tomorrow

Transformers: The Last Knight

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji

Year One in the North

Bonds

MacArthur's Children

Bel Canto

7 Guardians of the Tomb

Vessel of Sand

第三の時効

The Making of "Tampopo"

Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween

Hanzo, the Razor

横山秀夫サスペンスシリーズ (TBS)