Higashiyama Chieko

Higashiyama Chieko (東山千栄子) was born on September 30, 1890. Higashiyama Chieko movies and tv shows: Chushingura 1962 (Japan), Diary of a Mad Old Man 1962 (Japan), Spring Dreams 1960 (Japan), Tokyo Story 1953 (Japan), The Life of Oharu 1952 (Japan)...

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First Name: Chieko

Family Name: Higashiyama

Native Name: 東山千栄子

Nationality: Japanese

Gender: Female

Born: September 30, 1890

Higashiyama Chieko was a Japanese stage and film actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1936 to 1967.
Graduating from the girl's school at Gakushuin, she married a businessman in 1909 and spent eight years in Moscow. In 1925, at the age of 35, she decided to become an actress and began training at the Tsukiji Shogekijo. She appeared in many stage productions, most famously as Madame Ranevskaya in "The Cherry Orchard".