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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