Ken Watanabe

About Ken Watanabe

He is best recognized in the United States for his appearances in Inception and Batman Begins. His roles in Letters from Iwo Jima and The Last Samurai earned him critical acclaim. He also appeared in the 2014 film Godzilla, in which he had a pivotal part. He made his Broadway debut in The King and I in 2015 as the King of Siam.

Ken Watanabe is a Japanese actor. For English speaking audiences he is known to play tragic heroic characters, such as Shogun Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he won the Japan Academy Film Award for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. He is also known for his roles in the films Batman Begins and Christopher Nolan's Inception, Memoirs of a Geisha and Pokémon Detective Pikachu. In 2014, he starred in the Godzilla reboot as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, a role he reappeared in the sequel, Godzilla: King of the Monsters. He voiced the fourth and fifth installments of the Transformers series, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Transformers: The Last Knight, respectively, when Decepticon transformed Autobot Drift.

Children	Dai Watanabe, Anne Watanabe
Born	October 21, 1959, Hirokami, Niigata, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1979–present

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Trivia

He received the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor for his role in the 2007 film, Memories of Tomorrow.

Ken Watanabe before fame

After graduating from high school, he joined the Tokyo-based acting troupe En.

Achievement of Ken Watanabe

For his portrayal in the 2007 film Memories of Tomorrow, he won the Japan Academy Award for Best Actor.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$40 Million

Ken Watanabe family life

Anne Watanabe, an actress and fashion model, is his daughter. He has a son named Dai and a daughter named Anne. He has an adoptive son as well.

Associations of Ken Watanabe

In the film Batman Begins, Christian Bale played his co-star.

Ken Watanabe Height, Weight & Physique Measurements

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Height	185 cm
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