Tanie Kitabayashi
Known For
Acting
Born
1911-05-21 in Tokyo, Japan
Died
2010-04-27
Biography
Tanie Kitabayashi (北林谷栄, Kitabayashi Tanie, May 21, 1911 – April 27, 2010) was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the Mainichi Film Awards for Kiku to Isamu. She also won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress in Rainbow Kids (1991), a film that also earned her honors from the Mainichi Film Awards and from Kinema Junpo. She died on April 27, 2010, of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. She was 98.
Most Known For
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
Station
as Masayo Mikami
Mayuko hitori
as 加野のぶ
Yakuza sensei
The Burmese Harp
Rikyu
as Mother
Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi
The Sun's Burial
as Chika
Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
Proof of the Man
Scandal
as Yasu Hiruta
Resurrection
as Saki Naito
White Snake Enchantment
as Tane
Stakeout
Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother
Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo
おくさまは18歳
as Asuka's grandmother
Odd Obsession
as Hana