Yoshino Kimura

Kimura was born on 10 April 1976, in London, England, but grew up in Setagaya, Tokyo.^[7] Kimura also lived in New York City for three years because of her father's job.^[8] She attended the Department of English Literature and Art at Seijo University but did not graduate.^[9]

Kimura appeared as Shizuka in the 2007 spaghetti-western Sukiyaki Western Django. As of 25 June 2007, she was slated to star in a new Japanese soap opera to be set in Australia.^[10] Kimura also voiced Master Tigress in the Japanese dub of Kung Fu Panda and Kung Fu Panda 2. She also appears in Blindness as the First Blind Man's Wife. On 24 October 2010, she married Noriyuki Higashiyama.^[11]

In 2007, Kimura took the titular role in the TV Asahi tanpatsu (単発, TV movie) Teresa Teng Monogatari (テレサ・テン物語), portraying the late Taiwanese superstar, who was and continues to be popular throughout Asia.

She played Kazusa Monzen and Aoi Monzen in the 2008 film Orochi: Blood.^[12]

She also voiced Claire Folley in the video game Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.

Key

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Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1997	Lost Paradise	Chika
2000	Isola		Lead role
2001	Hashire! Ichirō
2002	Mobōhan	Shigeko Maehata
	Her Island, My Island	Kuriko	Lead role
2003	Like Asura	Keiko Akagi
2005	Ichigo no Kakera
	Bluestockings	Kiyoko
	The Samurai I Loved	Fuku
2006	A Hardest Night!!	Shigeko		[13]
	Backdancers!	Reiko Mihama
	Sakuran	Takao
2007	Glory to the Filmmaker!	Akiko
	Densen Uta	Ranko Kaburagi
	Sukiyaki Western Django	Shizuka
2008	Fine, Totally Fine	Akari Kinoshita
	Aibō the Movie	Hinako Katayama
	Orochi: Blood	Aoi Monzen, Kazusa Monzen	Lead role
	Jirochô Sangokushi	Osono
	Blindness	First Blind Man's Wife	English-language film	[14]
	Daremo Mamotte Kurenai	Reiko Onoue
	Rescue Wings	Mina Takasu
2009	Killer Bride's Perfect Crime	Fukuko Kobayashi
2010	Confessions	Yuko Shimomura
	King Game	Yamazaki
2013	Aibō Series X DAY	Hinako Katayama
2014	Hot Road	Kazuki's mother
2015	Hoshigaoka Wonderland	Sawako Kiyokawa
2016	Desperate Sunflowers	Natsuko Kotani
2017	Pretty Cure Dream Stars!	Shizuku (voice)
2018	My Dad is a Heel Wrestler	Shiori
2019	Hit Me Anyone One More Time	President of the United States
	Yo-kai Watch Jam the Movie: Yo-Kai Academy Y - Can a Cat be a Hero?	Medusa (voice)		[15]
2020	The Legacy of Dr. Death: Black File	Megumi Hinamori		[16]
2021	Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction	Yuriko Enami		[17]
	First Love	Akina Hijiriyama		[18]
	Masquerade Night	Machiko Sono		[19]
2023	The Boy and the Heron	Natsuko (voice)		[20]
2025	Re/Member: The Last Night			[21]
2026	You, Like a Star	Shiho Inoue		[22]

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Japanese dub

Live-action

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Year	Title	Role	Voice-over for	Notes	Ref.
2010	Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief	Medusa	Uma Thurman		[23]
2014	Paddington	Millicent Clyde	Uma Thurman		[24]
2015	Jurassic World	Claire Dearing	Bryce Dallas Howard		[25]
2018	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	Claire Dearing	Bryce Dallas Howard		[25]
2019	Godzilla: King of the Monsters	Dr. Emma Russell	Emily Blunt		[26]
2021	Jungle Cruise	Dr. Lily Houghton	Emily Blunt		[27]
2023	Jurassic World Dominion	Claire Dearing	Bryce Dallas Howard		[28]

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Animation

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2001	Atlantis: The Lost Empire	Princess Kida		[29]
2006	Open Season	Beth		[30]
2008	Kung Fu Panda	Master Tigress		[31]
2011	Kung Fu Panda 2	Master Tigress		[32]
2022	Turning Red	Ming Lee		[33]

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Television

• Shota no Sushi (1996), Saori Otori
• Hojo Tokimune (2001), Toko
• Remote (2002), Yuka Sasaki
• Aibō (2004), Hinako Katayama
• Masters of Horror (2007), Yuri Saito (Episode: "Dream Cruise" )
• Teresa Teng Monogatari (2007), Teresa Teng
• Tenchijin (2009), Oryō^[34]
• Nakanai to Kimeta Hi (2010), Yukiko Sano
• Asa ga Kita (2015), Soe Kushida
• Sanada Maru (2016), Matsu^[35]
• Hiyokko (2017), Miyoko Yatabe
• Home Sweet Tokyo (2017), Itsuki Jenkins
• Dokonimo nai Kuni (2018), Mariko Maruyama
• Reach Beyond the Blue Sky (2021), Hiraoka Yasu^[36]
• No Activity (2021–24), Misato Satomi^[37]
• Minami-kun ga Koibito!? (2024), Kaede^[38]
• The 19th Medical Chart (2025), Shiori Arimatsu^[39]

Albums

• 1999.03.03 "One and Only"
• 2000.04.20 "Girl"
• 2001.09.19 "Lady -The Best of Yoshino Kimura-"

Singles

• 1998.06.17 "Iruka no Natsu"
• 1998.09.18 "Love and Life"
• 1999.01.20 "Hello myself"
• 1999.12.01 "Amenohi wa Futari de"
• 2000.03.17 "Koisuru Nichiyobi"
• 2000.09.06 "Lullaby for Grandmother-M Version-"