Kiki Sukezane

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Kiki Sukezane at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival

Kiki Sukezane ( Japanese祐 真 キ キSukezane Kiki , born April 5, 1989 in Kyōto , Kyōto Prefecture ) is a Japanese actress and martial artist .

life and career

Kiki Sukezane comes from Kyoto, Japan. She is a descendant of Samurai . After completing secondary school, she initially took on various part-time jobs and traveled to Tanzania as a development worker . After returning to Japan, she began a two-year acting course in Tokyo . She then moved to Los Angeles in the United States, where she lived temporarily for the first time as a student on a student exchange program in South Dakota and learned the English language .

In 2012, she took on her first acting role in the movie Death Yankee 2 . She was also featured in the sequel, which was published a year later. Also in 2013 she took on a recurring role as Nuko in the series The Yokai King , which she played until 2014. A year later, she took on the role of Miko Otomo in Heroes Reborn . She already lived in Los Angeles and was part of the Samurai Swording Fight Club in Santa Monica . With an explicit search for an actress with sword fighting experience, she was cast for the role through connections with the show's cast team.

In 2017 she played a supporting role in the miniseries Code Name Mirage . With her roles from 2018, she managed to expand her popularity to a larger audience. She was seen as Aiko Watanabe in a supporting role in the Netflix series Lost in Space and took on the role of Sakura in the second season of the HBO series Westworld . In 2019 she took on the role of Yuko Tanabe in the second season of the anthology series The Terror .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2012: Death Yankee 2
  • 2013: Gutsy Frog (TV movie)
  • 2013: Death Yankee 3
  • 2013–2014: The Yokai King (TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 2015-2016: Heroes Reborn (mini-series, 13 episodes)
  • 2016: Dango Samurai (TV series, one episode)
  • 2016: Toshi no se hen'ai Drama (mini-series, episode 1x01)
  • 2017: The Adventures of Hooligan Squad in World War III (TV movie)
  • 2017: Code Name Mirage (miniseries, 25 episodes)
  • 2018: Lost in Space ( Lost in Space , TV series, 5 episodes)
  • 2018: Westworld (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 2019: The Terror (TV series, 10 episodes)
  • 2019: Where the earth quakes (Earthquake Bird)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heroes Reborn 's Kiki Sukezane Is a Real-Life Samurai ( en-US ) Archived from the original on November 25, 2015. Information: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 1, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mademan.com
  2. ↑ Kiki Sukezane . Retrieved May 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Sukezane, Kiki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese actress and martial artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto , Kyoto Prefecture , Japan