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Ken Watanabe
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Ken Watanabe
is a Japanese actor. 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
. Among other awards, he has won the
Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor
twice, in 2007 for
Memories of Tomorrow
and in 2010 for
Shizumanu Taiyo
. He is also known for his roles in director
Christopher Nolan
's Hollywood films
Batman Begins
and
Inception
. In 2014, he starred in the reboot of
Godzilla
, and lent his voice to the fourth installment of the
Transformers
franchise, as Decepticon turned Autobot
Drift
. He made his Broadway debut in April 2015 in Lincoln Center Theater's revival production of
The King and I
in the title role (opposite
Kelli O'Hara
as Anna Leonowens). In 2015, Watanabe received his first Tony nomination for
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
at the
69th Tony Awards
for his role as The King. He is the first Japanese actor to be nominated in this category.
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