Shinobu Terajima

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.^[2]

Shinobu Terajima
寺島しのぶ
Terajima at Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2018
Born	(1972-12-28) December 28, 1972 (age 52) Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1995–present
Spouse	Laurent Ghnassia ​ (m. 2007)​
Children	Onoe Maholo (son)[1]
Parent(s)	Onoe Kikugorō VII (father)[a] Sumiko Fuji (mother)
Relatives	Onoe Baikō VII (grandfather)[b] Onoe Einosuke II (uncle) Onoe Kikugorō VIII (younger brother)[c] Yoko Namino (sister-in-law)[d] Onoe Ushinosuke VII (nephew)[e]

Early life

Her father is the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VII (Japanese: 五代目 尾上菊五郎, Hepburn: Nanadaime Onoe Kikugorō), her mother the actress Sumiko Fuji, and her brother is the kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke V.^[3]

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

Terajima appeared in Shinobu Yaguchi's Happy Flight.^[4]

Personal life

In 2007, she married Laurent Ghnassia, a French art director based in Japan. The couple have one son, born in 2012.^[5] In an interview with The Japan Times, Terajima stated that she is raising her son to be a kabuki actor.^[6]

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
• A Family (2021)^[7]
• It's a Flickering Life (2021)^[8]
• Arc (2021)^[9]
• Intolerance (2021)^[10]
• 2 Women (2022), Miharu Osanai^[11]
• The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn (2022), Keiko Tenma^[12]
• My Mom, My Angel: A Journey of Love and Acceptance (2024)^[13]
• The Parades (2024), Kaori^[14]
• Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality (2024), Ohyaku^[15]
• Kokuho (2025), Sachiko Ōgaki^[16]
• Hokusai's Daughter (2025), Koto^[17]

Television

• Ryōmaden (2010), Sakamoto Otome^[18]
• Here Comes Asa! (2015), Rie Imai
• The Supporting Actors 2 (2018)
• Idaten (2019), Tokuyo Nikaidō^[19]
• Poison Daughter, Holy Mother (2019)
• Earwig and the Witch (2020), Bella Yaga (voice)
• The Supporting Actors 3 (2021), Herself
• Modern Love Tokyo (2022)^[20]
• What Will You Do, Ieyasu? (2023), narrator/Lady Kasuga^[21]

Honours

• Kinuyo Tanaka Award (2023)^[22]

Notes

1. Real Name: Hideyuki Terajima (Japanese: 寺島秀幸, Hepburn: Terajima Hideyuki).
2. Real Name: Seizō Terajima (Japanese: 寺島誠三, Hepburn: Terajima Seizō).
3. Real Name: Kazuyasu Terashima (Japanese: 寺嶋和康, Hepburn: Terajima Kazuyasu).
4. Daughter of Nakamura Kichiemon II.
5. Real Name: Kazufumi Terashima (Japanese: 寺嶋和史, Hepburn: Terajima Kazufumi).