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Yuriko Ishida

Ishida Yuriko was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. Her family moved to Tokyo soon after. She travelled to and lived in Hyogo Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture and Taiwan as a child due to her father's work. During elementary school she participated in the Junior Olympics as a swimmer. She returned to Tokyo at age fifteen. She was scouted to model while at high school. She graduated from Kagawa Junior College's Institute Of Nutrition. She did a commercial for ANA for Okinawa in 1987. Her TV debut came in 1987 and she has been prolific since. She was in a TV serial called Umi No Gunsei ('Sea's Constellation') and movie Kanashi Iro Yanen ('Sad Colours') in 1988. She and her sister opened their own agency in 1999. She won the Japan Academy Awards prize for Best Supporting Actress for the film Kita No Zeronen in 2005. She is a writer and actress who has equal number of voice acting, serial and movies to her credit. Her sister is Ishida Hikari who is also an actress. She won the 91st Television Drama Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress award for Nigeru Wa Haji Da Ga Yaku Ni Tatsu in 2016. Ishida maintain a short masculine haircut. She cites swimming, strolling, taking baths, writing and reading as favourite pastimes. Yuriko is a writer who has some eight books to her name. She has a dog and two cats as of 2017.


Aliases
  • Ishida Yuriko
English 日本語

もののけ姫

1997
as San (voice)

コクリコ坂から

2011
as Miki Hokuto (voice)

THE DAYS (2023)

2023
as 桐原の母

虎に翼

2024
as 猪爪 はる

Gege

2004
as Asamura Yoko

転職の魔王様

2023
as 落合洋子

Haruka, Nosutarujii

1993
as Girl in Bar

できちゃった結婚

2001
as 小谷亜紀

不機嫌な果実

1997
as Mizukoshi Mayako

Detective Akechi Kogoro

2019
as Fumiyo Kogoro

Kita no zeronen

2005
as Kayo Mamiya

Sayonara Itsuka

2010
as Mitsuko Tazusue

Yokkakan no kiseki

2005
as Mariko Iwamura

Tsuribaka nisshi 17

2006
as Yumiko Sawada

MW

2009
as Kyoko Makino

Plage

2017
as Junko

いのちの停車場

2021
as 中川朋子

秘密

1999
as Taeko Hashimoto

オヤジぃ。

2000
as 君塚 真知子

The Rocking Horsemen

1992
as Woman in White Dress

Synesthesia

2005
as Aki Shibata

Tsuribaka Nisshi 18

2007
as Yumiko Sawada

Erased

2016
as Sachiko Fujinuma

Silent Tokyo

2020
as Aiko Yamaguchi

The Mourner

2015
as Yukiyo Naga

Dare mo mamotte kurenai

2008
as Kumiko Honjo

Happy Dining Table

2007
as Yuriko Nakahara

BG~身辺警護人~

2018
as Tachihara Aiko

さまよう刃

2021
as Wakako Kijima

MOZU

2014
as Kuraki Chihiro

Resurrection

2002
as Reiko

Boiling Point

1990
as Sayaka

望み

2020
as 石川貴代美

Pride

2004
as Anzai Yoko

神様のパズル

2008
as 鳩村教授

Midnight Ferris Wheel

2013
as Takahashi Junko

Doctors' Affairs

2015
as Chizuru Kondo

Over Time-オーバー・タイム

1999
as 鶴町冬美 / TSURUMACHI Fuyumi

Guest Star

Episode 世界ふれあい街歩き
ジブラルタル〜イギリス〜
2015
Episode 逃げるは恥だが役に立つ
ガンバレ人類!新春スペシャル!!
2021