Nanako Matsushima

Japanese  Model and  Actress 

Profile
Popular name          Nanako Matsushima
Japanese name       松嶋 菜々子
Chinese name         松岛菜菜子
Birth date               October 13, 1973 (Saturday)
Birth place             Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Height                   172cm
Blood type             A
Husband                Sorimachi Takashi
Occupation            Model and  Actress
Hobbies                 Cooking and driving


Biography
Nanako Matsushima is an established Japanese model and actress. She started out her career as a swim suit model. She was discovered in high school and landed her first job when she was nineteen. Over the next five years she would become one of the most famous models in Japan. Her first big role was when she was twenty-four in Kon'na koi no hanashi (1997) (TV) opposite Hiroyuki Sanada and Koji Tamaki.

Nanako Matsushima is well known both in Japan and in the Western countries for her role in the hit horror movie Ring, but Nanako Matsushima is mainly famous for her roles in television dramas. eacher Onizuka. Matsushima Nanako started modeling at 18 as swimsuit model for various commercial advertisements, and featured in some budget TV shows. Nanako’s breakthrough was in 1996 when she got the chance to star in NHK production “Himawari” (Sunflower); in the same year that she also starred in Asia hit movie “Ringu,” which was adapted by Hollywood movie “The Ring” years later. Nanako’s popularity was ever rising since then, leading in loads of popular Japanese TV series and movies, and TV commercials.