Shinobu Terajima (寺島 しのぶ, Terajima Shinobu; born December 28, 1972) is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003) and Vibrator (2003). For her role in Caterpillar (2010), Terajima won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin Film Festival while her performance in Oh Lucy! (2017) earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress.
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Early life
Her father is the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VII (Japanese: 七代目 尾上菊五郎, Hepburn: Nanadaime Onoe Kikugorō), her mother the actress Sumiko Fuji, and her brother is the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VIII.
She is also the granddaughter of Onoe Baikō VII, a renowned Kabuki actor considered one of the leading onnagata (i.e., a Kabuki actor who plays exclusively female roles) of the Showa era and father of Kikugorō VII (Terajima's father).
Career
As a child, she aspired to be a Kabuki actress like her family, but she was forbidden from pursuing this path because Kabuki was exclusively for men, and her brother Kinosuke was born. In 1992, she joined a theater group thanks to Taichi Kiwako, who was a good friend of her parents.
Terajima appeared in Shinobu Yaguchi's Happy Flight.
Personal life
In 2007, she married Laurent Ghnassia, a French art director based in Japan. The couple have one son, born in 2012. In an interview with The Japan Times, Terajima stated that she is raising her son to be a kabuki actor.
Filmography
Films
Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003)
Get Up! (2003)
Vibrator (2003)
Quill (2004)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
Tokyo Tower (2005)
Yamato (2005)
It's Only Talk (2006)
Ai no Rukeichi (2006)
Happy Flight (2008) as Reiko Yamazaki
Rush Life (2009)
Caterpillar (2010)
The Fallen Angel (2010)
11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (2012)
Helter Skelter (2012)
Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship (2012)
The Millennial Rapture (2012)
Japan's Tragedy (2013)
R100 (2013)
The Shell Collector (2016)
Star Sand (2016)
Haha (2017), Seki Kobayashi
Oh Lucy! (2017)
Flea-picking Samurai (2018), Omine
Sakura (2020), Tsubomi Hasegawa
Television
Ryōmaden (2010), Sakamoto Otome
Here Comes Asa! (2015), Rie Imai
The Supporting Actors 2 (2018)
Idaten (2019), Tokuyo Nikaidō
Poison Daughter, Holy Mother (2019)
Earwig and the Witch (2020), Bella Yaga (voice)
The Supporting Actors 3 (2021), Herself
Modern Love Tokyo (2022)
What Will You Do, Ieyasu? (2023), narrator/Lady Kasuga
Honours
Kinuyo Tanaka Award (2023)
