Tanie Kitabayashi

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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. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre Company, founded in 1950. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards[1] 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.[2]

Tanie Kitabayashi
Born
Reiko Andou (安藤 蓮以子, Andō Reiko)

(1911-05-21)May 21, 1911
DiedApril 27, 2010(2010-04-27) (aged 98)
OccupationActress
Years active1936–2003

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Television

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Japanese dub

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  1. ^ ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
  2. ^ "Tanie Kitabayashi was "My Neighbor Totoro" grandma". forum.bcdb.com May 07, 2010
  3. ^ Stuart Galbraith IV (16 May 2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. p. 375. ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.