Yukie Nakama
Birthday: 1979-10-30 | Place of Birth: Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, JapanFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yukie Nakama (born October 30, 1979) is a Japanese actress, singer and former idol. She was born in Okinawa, Japan, in a fisherman's family, the youngest of five siblings. At the start of her career she was a gravure idol and singer (her debut single "Moonlight to Daybreak" was released in 1996), and appeared in bit roles until her career breakthrough playing Sadako in "Ring 0: Birthday (2000)." In 2000, Nakama demonstrated her talent for comedy with her lead role in the Japanese television drama Trick which proved so popular that it had two more seasons and three film versions, but it was the top-rating TV series Gokusen (2002), a live-action version of the popular manga, that established her as one of Japan's most popular and bankable actresses. Nakama has featured in commercials for companies such as Nissin, Glico, Lotte, Asahi, Shiseido, au by KDDI, and has even served as a spokesperson for Japan Railways and the Japanese Tax Agency. She is managed by Production Ogi. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yukie Nakama, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Acting
Role
as Chieko Takamori
as Yuko Higa
as Urara Asakura
as Yoshizawa Yoko
as Maehata Shigeko
as Makiko Yoshioka
as Ryo Shiramine
as Akamine
as Naoko Yamada
as Sakura Mizusawa (DJ Kokoro)
as Sawako (voice)
as Chihiro Natsumura
as Makiko Norita
as Natsumi Endo
as Saki Amihama
as Choko Uehara
as Katakura Tomoe
as Rin Kinoshita
as Meyer Saki
