Matsushima Nanako
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Profile
- Name: ?嶋?々? / Matsushima Nanako
- Date of Birth: October 13, 1973
- Place of Birth: Yokohama, Japan
- Height: 170cm
- Weight: 46kg
- Star Sign: Libra
- Blood Type: A
- Hobbies: Driving, cooking
- Spouse: Sorimachi Takashi
Trivia
- 2004 Income: 53,890,000 Yen (approx)
- 2004 Income: 53,760,000 Yen (approx)
Biography
Many beautiful young actresses get their start as a 'campaign girl', or swimwear poster girl for a Japanese corporation. In this case of Matsushima, an 18-year old aspiring model, the company was Asahi Kasei - a pharmeceuticals company with no relation to swimwear whatsoever. A year later, in 1993, she got the more visible 'image girl' job with Asahi Beer. Another couple of years of slogging saw her make her TV debut in a forgettable TV drama. Her break came when she auditioned for and got the lead in the 1996 NHK morning drama series Himawari (Sunflower). Unlike the commercial TV stations, NHK has the reputation in Japan of producing 'quality' programs and successful exposure there often brings the prestige of being a 'real' actor.
The following year saw the job offers come flooding in. Suddenly Matsushima was everywhere, appearing in TV dramas, commercials and movies. She starred in the 1996 TV horror series Ringu (The Ring) which became a hugely popular movie a couple of years later. In 2000, she co-starred in the big action movie of the year, White Out alongside Oda Yuji. She also carried a major three-part, end-of-the-century series entitled Hyakunen no Monogatari (100-year Story) in which she played three different, but related, heroines over three generations. Her popularity is widespread and she regularly tops such polls as 'best jeanist' or 'favorite female star'. In February 2001, she hit the headlines again when she married the popular actor Sorimachi Takashi. The two starred together in the TV drama series GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka a couple of years earlier.
Source: Japan Zone
Dramas
- Hotaru no Haka (2005)
- Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji 3 (24 Hour Emergency Ward 3) (2005)
- Bijo ka Yajuu (The Beauty or the Beast) (2003)
- Toshiie to Matsu (Toshiie and Matsu) (2002)
- Yamato Nadeshiko (Perfect Woman) (2000)
- Hyakunen no Monogatari (The Story of One Century) (2000)
- Koori no sekai (Ice World) (1999)
- Majo no Jouken (Forbidden Love) (1999)
- Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji (24 Hour Emergency Ward) (1999)
- Great Teacher Onizuka (1998)
- Sweet Season (1998)
- Shinryonaikai Ryoko (The Doctor Is In) (1997)
- Konna Koi no Hanashi (A Story Of Love) (1997)
- Kimi ga Jinsei no Toki (The Time of Your Life) (1997)
- Himawari (Sunflower) (1996)
- Onegai Darling (Please Darling!) (1993)
- Midnight Express
- Miracle World - 10th Anniversary
Movies
- Whiteout (2000)
- Poppuguruupu Koroshiya (Pop Beat Killers) (2000)
- Ringu 2 (The Ring 2) (1999)
- Rasen (The Spiral) (Archive film footage only) (1998)
- Ringu (The Ring) (1998)
- Koi to Hanabi to Kanransha (Fireworks, Ferris Wheels and Love) (1997)