Suzuki Sarina
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Profile
- Name: 鈴木紗?奈 / Suzuki Sarina
- Profession: Actress / Singer
- Date of Birth: 13 July 1977
- Height: 162cm
- Weight: 42kg
- Star Sign: Cancer
- Blood Type: B
- Birthplace: Osaka
- Talent Agency: Pyramid
Dramas
- Rikon Bengoshi
- Kimi wa Pet
- Manten
- Zoku Heisei Meoto Jawan
- Visual Battle 2
- Visual Battle
- Quiz
- Heisei meoto jawan ~ dokechi no hanamichi
- Keizoku
- Boy Hunt
- Ryakudatsu ai ~ abunai onna
- Five
Article
Where's Che Guevara when you need him?
TOKYO — When Sarina Suzuki was a young girl, she wanted to be the wife of a yakuza boss or in the Self-Defense Forces. Not your average girl's career aspirations. The 27-year-old actress and TV personality says she has always been impressed by strong women. Strong men, too — her ideal man is Che Guevara. "He inspired a lot of people and I like his revolutionary spirit," she chirps. And her ideal woman? "Angelina Jolie," she answers.
Today, the Osaka-born Suzuki has just finished taping a cooking variety show on TV Asahi. The costume and hairdo will be quickly replaced by another look next week. Given the borderless nature of Japanese show business, entertainers like Suzuki go from network to network appearing on an endless variety of programs.
Since her debut in show business at 17, Suzuki has appeared on hundreds of TV shows, done numerous TV commercials, radio programs, a couple of films and made countless appearances in magazines, sometimes in provocative photo spreads that are known as "gravura" in Japanese.
As she chats in her dressing room, Suzuki switches into English occasionally, the result of 18 months study at Berlitz. "I'd like to work in English in the future, either TV or even the theater," she says wistfully. "I don't have much of a chance to use my English. I have foreign friends but we speak both languages, more Japlish, which can tend to be a bad habit."
She is her own harshest critic when it comes to her work. "I still get nervous before going on TV, if I think about it too much. I do a lot of variety shows with very little direction, so afterwards, I always think I should have done this or that better."
Surprisingly, Suzuki gets very little feedback from her mother or three brothers. "I don't think they are really very interested. Mom always told us: ?eIt is your life, you do what you think is right,'" she says.
Unlike many of her colleagues, Suzuki is more open about her private life, although some intrusions do not go unpunished. "Once when I was in a restaurant, a waiter was secretly photographing me with his cell phone. My friend warned him, but he said he didn't know what we were talking about. So I grabbed the cell phone and busted it. I gave him some money and we left the restaurant," she says.
Despite devoting most of her energy to entertainment, Suzuki maintains an interest in politics. "I like any job in which I can express myself. Maybe one day I might teach," she muses. A reggae music fan, she says the issue closest to her heart these days is world peace. "You have two sides in a conflict. Both think the other is in the wrong, so there'll never be peace. They should listen to reggae music. I always think it has a great peace message."
July 26, 2004 Japan Times