Ken WatanabeKen Watanabe is a Japanese film, television, theatre actor, and leukemia survivor. Watanabe has a Japanese Academy Award and an American Oscar nomination, and appeared in such major Hollywood films as “The Last Samurai”, “Letters From Iwo Jima”, “Batman Begins”, “Inception”, and many more. Watanabe made his American theatre debut and received a Tony nomination for playing the title role of the Kennedy Center revival of The King and I.

Selected Credits: The Lion In Winter (1981) – Dialogue with Horowitz (2013) – The King and I (2015) – The Royal Hunt of the Sun (2020)

Awards: Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor (2021) 

SEE an interview with Ken Watanabe about INCEPTION

LISTEN to Ken Watanabe talk about The King and I

WATCH Ken Watanabe in The King and I

 

 

 

 

 

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