Eiko Ando
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Eiko Ando | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 8, 1934 |
| Died | August 28, 2018 (aged 84) New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1958 |
Eiko Ando[1] (安藤 永子, Andō Eiko; May 8, 1934 – August 28, 2018) was a Japanese-American actress best known for her role as Okichi opposite John Wayne in The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1958.
Ando was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (today Northeast China), to a Japanese industrialist. When the Communists took over the family fled back to Japan. After her father died in 1953, she went to work as a singer and then as a burlesque dancer.
