# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tanie-kitabayashi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:46:54.936Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tanie-kitabayashi"
name: "Tanie Kitabayashi"
slug: "tanie-kitabayashi"
description: "Tanie Kitabayashi  was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre Company, founded in 1950. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the Mainichi Film Awards for Kiku to Isamu. She also won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress in Rainbow Kids (1991), a film that also earned her honors from the Mainichi Film Awards and from Kinema Junpo. She died on April 27, 2010, of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. She was 98."
tagline: "Actress (1911–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kitabayashi-Tanie-1_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1911-05-21"
deathDate: "2010-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.96
  momentum:             1.513240857503153
  historical:           7.425936
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457498/"
    handle:    "nm0457498"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%9E%97%E8%B0%B7%E8%8D%A3"
    title: "北林谷荣"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "تانى كيتاباياشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanie_Kitabayashi"
    title: "Tanie Kitabayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanie_Kitabayashi"
    title: "Tanie Kitabayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%87_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C"
    title: "تانیه کیتابایاشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanie_Kitabayashi"
    title: "Tanie Kitabayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%9E%97%E8%B0%B7%E6%A0%84"
    title: "北林谷栄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3547309"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55666"
    title: "Tanie Kitabayashi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump