Actor on record

Ken Watanabe

ActorHollywood9 credits

61Star power

350th of 1,031 in Hollywood

2 films led, $1.23B in reported gross.

Gross led: 67
Consistency: 92
Body of work: 0
Momentum: 46
Audience rating: 94

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Born: 21 October 1959
Birthplace: Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Nationality: United States
Industry: Hollywood

In their own file

Ken Watanabe (born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.

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8 of 9 credits have a verdict, together taking $3.62B. The biggest was Transformers: Age of Extinction at $1.11B. The rest are still counting, or never reported a budget.