Actor

Tanie Kitabayashi

1937–present1911–2010DramaComedyRomanceMystery

Chronicler of the Human Condition

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Known For

152 acting credits

as Granny (voice)

My Neighbor Totoro

as Granny (voice)

1988

My Neighbor Totoro

Filmography

2003YomigaeriSaki Naito6.0 2002Letter from the MountainOume8.3 1991Rainbow KidsMrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa6.6 1989RikyuMother7.5 1988My Neighbor TotoroGranny (voice)8.1 1988Yamada Village Waltz10.0

About

Tanie Kitabayashi (北林谷栄, Kitabayashi Tanie, May 21, 1911 – April 27, 2010) was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the Mainichi Film Awards for Kiku to Isamu. She also won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress in Rainbow Kids (1991), a film that also earned her honors from the Mainichi Film Awards and from Kinema Junpo. She died on April 27, 2010, of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. She was 98.

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