Olivia de Havilland
1916 - 2020
HPI 73.4079 languages
Olivia de Havilland is most famous for her role as Melanie Hamilton in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.
The Most Famous
Actors from Japan
527 notable people
Trending Actors from Japan This Week
The top 10 Actors from Japan trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1
Ai Hashimoto
b. 1996
Trending in Japanese (#5) Wikipedia (21,738 views, on Jul 10).
- #2
Rinko Kikuchi
b. 1981
Trending in Japanese (#11) Wikipedia (11,856 views, on Jul 13).
- #3
Yuka Iguchi
b. 1988
Trending in Japanese (#12) Wikipedia (14,403 views, on Jul 12).
- #4
Hiroshi Fujioka
b. 1946
Trending in Japanese (#12) Wikipedia (11,982 views, on Jul 15).
- #5
Shun Oguri
b. 1982
Trending in Japanese (#13) and Chinese (#40) Wikipedia (13,537 views, on Jul 12).
- #6
Kazuya Kamenashi
b. 1986
Trending in Japanese (#13) Wikipedia (12,143 views, on Jul 11).
- #7
Takashi Sorimachi
b. 1973
Trending in Japanese (#15) Wikipedia (9,111 views, on Jul 13).
- #8
Masaki Suda
b. 1993
Trending in Japanese (#16) Wikipedia (10,416 views, on Jul 15).
- #9
Masami Nagasawa
b. 1987
Trending in Japanese (#17) Wikipedia (11,114 views, on Jul 12).
- #10
Kento Yamazaki
b. 1994
Trending in Japanese (#19) Wikipedia (10,701 views, on Jul 12).
This page contains a list of the greatest Japanese Actors. The pantheon dataset contains 15,712 Actors, 515 of which were born in Japan. This makes Japan the birth place of the 7th most number of Actors behind France and South Korea.
Top 10 Japanese Actors
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Japanese Actors of all time. This list of famous Japanese Actors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Japanese Actors.
#1 #2 
Mako
1933 - 2006
HPI 72.4636 languagesJapanese American actor
#3 
Liv Ullmann
b. 1938
HPI 71.1260 languagesLiv Ullmann is most famous for her role in the movie Persona. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role.
#4 
Joan Fontaine
1917 - 2013
HPI 70.2671 languagesJoan Fontaine is most famous for her Academy Award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" (1941) and her Academy Award-nominated performance in "Rebecca" (1940).
#5 
Sonny Chiba
1939 - 2021
HPI 69.2536 languagesSonny Chiba is most famous for his karate skills and his starring roles in the "Street Fighter" and "Kill Bill" movies.
#6 
Ken Watanabe
b. 1959
HPI 68.5251 languagesKen Watanabe is most famous for his role as the King of Siam in the musical "The King and I" in the 1990s.
#7 
Hiroyuki Sanada
b. 1960
HPI 68.1839 languagesJapanese actor
#8 
Ken Takakura
1931 - 2014
HPI 67.8123 languagesJapanese actor
#9 
Takashi Shimura
1905 - 1982
HPI 67.3540 languagesTakashi Shimura is most famous for his role as the priest in the film "The Seven Samurai."
#10 
Victoria Principal
b. 1950
HPI 66.9137 languagesAmerican actress, producer, entrepreneur
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Japanese Actors grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
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Overlapping Lives
Which Actors were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Actors since 1700.
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