![]() ![]() ![]() Due to a number of relocations for his parents' work, he spent his childhood in the villages of Irihirose and Sumon, both now part of the city of Uonuma, and in Takada, now part of the city of Jōetsu. His mother was a school teacher and his father taught calligraphy. Watanabe was born on Octoin the mountain village of Koide in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Watanabe reprised his role at the London Palladium in June 2018. He is the first Japanese actor to be nominated in this category. In 2015, Watanabe received his first Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical at the 69th Tony Awards for his role as The King. He made his Broadway debut in April 2015 in Lincoln Center Theater's revival production of The King and I in the title role. ![]() In 2022, he starred in the HBO Max crime drama series Tokyo Vice. He lent his voice to the fourth and fifth installments of the Transformers franchise respectively, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Transformers: The Last Knight, as Decepticon-turned-Autobot Drift. Ishiro Serizawa, a role he reprised in the sequel, Godzilla: King of the Monsters. In 2014, he starred in the reboot Godzilla as Dr. He is also known for his roles in Christopher Nolan's films Batman Begins and Inception, as well as Memoirs of a Geisha, and Pokémon Detective Pikachu. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. To English-speaking audiences, he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Ken Watanabe ( 渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese actor. ![]()
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