Chiaki Kuriyama Height, Weight, Age, Boyfriend, Biography, Facts

Publish date: 2024-06-13

Chiaki Kuriyama Quick Info
Height	5 ft 4 in
Weight	48 kg
Date of Birth	October 10, 1984
Zodiac Sign	Libra
Eye Color	Dark Brown

Chiaki Kuriyama is a Japanese actress, singer, voiceover artist, stage artist, and model who has played a wide range of characters in shows and movies like Gogo Yubari in Kill Bill: Volume 1, Fumi Kusunoki in Kamogawa Horumo, Rio Kanzaki in CSI: Crime Scene Talks, and Maiko Ebina in Ataru Special: New York kara no Chōsenjō. Moreover, her credits as a singer include having released tracks and albums such as Ketteiteki Sanpunkan, Cold Finger Girl, Tsukiyo no Shōzō, and Circus.

Born Name

Chiaki Kuriyama

Nick Name

Chiakisama, Queen Bee

Sun Sign

Libra

Born Place

Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan

Nationality

Occupation

Actress, Singer, Voiceover Artist, Model, Stage Artist

Manager

She is represented by Spacecraft, Inc., Talent Agency, Tokyo, Japan.

Genre

Rock, Pop

Instruments

Vocals

Labels

She has released her music via Defstar Records.

Build

Slim

Height

5 ft 4 in or 162.5 cm

Weight

48 kg or 106 lbs

Race / Ethnicity

Asian

She is of Japanese descent.

Hair Color

Dark Brown

Eye Color

Dark Brown

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

Lean physique
Often sports forehead bangs

Chiaki Kuriyama Favorite Things

Band – L’Arc~en~Ciel
Asian Film – Oldboy (2003)
Actresses – Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Julie Dreyfus, Anna Kendrick, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
British Actor – Sacha Baron Cohen
Movies – Quentin Tarantino‘s Pulp Fiction, Danny Boyle‘s Trainspotting
American-Japanese Movies – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), The Bling Ring (2013), Lost in Translation (2003)
Directors – Quentin Tarantino, Danny Boyle, Edgar Wright, Chan-wook Park, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese

Source – IMDb

Chiaki Kuriyama Facts

A rough translation of her name is “Chestnut mountain with full brightness”.

She played the role of Gogo Yubari, O-Ren’s sadistic Japanese schoolgirl bodyguard, in the 2003 American martial arts film, Kill Bill: Volume 1. For her performance in the movie, Chiaki Kuriyama bagged the 2004 MTV Movie Award for “Best Fight” and was also nominated at the 30th Saturn Awards in the “Cinescape Genre Face of the Future Award” category.

Alongside Takayuki Yamada, she co-starred as Fumi Kusunoki in the fantasy action comedy film, Kamogawa Horumo, and this role won her the 2009 Fantastic Fest award for “Best Fantastic Actress”.

In 2013, she voice dubbed for Zoe Saldana‘s character of Uhura in the American science fiction action film, Star Trek Into Darkness.

Chiaki Kuriyama has shared a friendly bond with Yu Aoi and Aoi Miyazaki.

Apart from Japanese, she can also speak English.

She has done ballet and gymnastics.

She has provided vocals to several video game characters including Misuzu Asagi in Ryū ga Gotoku of the End, Paula in Shadows of the Damned, and Akane Sachimura in Death Come True.

As a stage artist, Chiaki Kuriyama has been a part of projects like Dogen’s adventure, Midnight in Bali, and Coast of Utopia.

Featured Image by Dick Thomas Johnson / Flickr / CC BY 2.0

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