is a Japanese actress.
Biography
Megumi Matsushita was born in Tokyo, Japan, on January 16, 1981. Her mother is Rumi Sakakibara, a renowned actress in Japan,
and her businessman father, Motoh Matsushita. She has no siblings.
Her booking agent is
Toei Company, a Japanese film production company which is known for anime, live- action dramas and special-effects (tokusatsu) films, such as the "Power Rangers".
Megumi made her acting debut at 11 years old, when she appeared on a TV show with her mother. Because of this performance, she was scouted by the
Horipro, Agency.
The next year, she made her television debut in the drama, “Kachosan no Yakudoshi" (1993) as Akemi, the daughter of the main character, played by
Kenichi Hagiwara
was a Japanese singer and actor.
Music career
Also known as Sho-Ken, he was the lead singer of The Tempters, which was a blues-rock band connected to the Group Sounds scene, and gained big hits in the late 1960s. Hagiwara was known for his go ...
.
In 1995, She played class leader Rumi Imaruoka in the TV drama, “Sannen B-gumi
Kinpachi-sensei" from October 1995 to March 1996.
When she was 16, she played the main character, Natsumi, in the feature film, “
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
, also known as ''Cosmos'', is a 1997 Japanese movie directed by . It is the story of a Japanese girl returning to Japan after seven years in South America where she contracted AIDS.
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1997 films
1990s Japanese-lan ...
" (1997), which was awarded Best Feature Film by the
Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema
The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (IIFC) is an independent film festival held since 2009 in Idyllwild, California. The festival is run by its founder, director Stephen Savage.
The tenth annual IIFC was held March 5 through 10, 2019. ...
in 1997.
Also in 1997, Megumi began working in the theater. She made her first appearance on stage as Wendy in the musical “Peter Pan.”
That same year, she would also play Rebecca Gibbs in
Thorton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes — for the novel ''The Bridge of San Luis Rey'' and for the plays ''Our Town'' and ''The Skin of Our Teeth'' — a ...
's “
Our Town." In the following years, she played the eldest daughter Liesl in the musical, “
The Sound of Music” (1998), and as the main character, Midori in
Ichiyō Higuchi's “
Takekurabe
, English titles including ''Growing Up'' and ''Child's Play'', is a novella by Japanese writer Ichiyō Higuchi, first published in 1895–96. It depicts a group of youths growing up in Shitaya Ryūsenji-chō, Yoshiwara, Meiji era Tokyo's red ligh ...
" (1998). The next year, she played Fredrika Armfelt in
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; March 22, 1930November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. One of the most important figures in twentieth-century musical theater, Sondheim is credited for having "reinvented the American musical" with sho ...
's, “
A Little Night Music.”
In other endeavors, she was the voice of “Fiorina" in the animation movie “Haha o Tazunete Sanzenri or 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother" (1998), and played the main character, Hitomi Hayama, of "Another Mind" (1998), an adventure game created by Square for the Playstation.
She was the hostess of the German study TV program of NHK's “Doitsugo Kaiwa" in 1999.
In 2000, She played Princess Chinatsu in the long-running historical drama, “
The Unfettered Shogun
(Abarenbō Shōgun) was a Japanese television program on the TV Asahi network. Set in the eighteenth century, it showed fictitious events in the life of Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa ''shōgun''.
The program started in 1978 under the title '' ...
.”
In 2001, she graduated from
Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College
is a junior college in Tokyo, Japan, and is part of the Aoyama Gakuin network.
The institute was founded in 1874 by Dora E. Schoonmaker, an American missionary sent to Japan by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Ch ...
.
She was awarded an Associate of Arts degree in English literature.
Currently, Megumi has appeared in over 70 television shows, twelve movies, and 18 plays. Some notable performances are:
Guest TV appearances in “
Mito Kōmon" (2002 and 2009),
“
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo" (2008 and 2009),“Ouroboros" (2015), and “Kasoken no onna" (2018).
In film, She played Utsusemi in “
Sakuran" (2006), The hairdresser in “
Exte" (2007), Megu, the daughter of Gō Hideki/Ultraman Jack, in “
Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers
is a 2008 Japanese superhero film, superhero ''kaiju'' film directed by Takeshi Yagi. It unites the ''Shōwa period, Shōwa'' heroes Ultraman, Ultra Seven, Seven, The Return of Ultraman, Jack and Ultraman Ace, Ace together on screen with the ''He ...
" (2008), and Iketani-kun's Mom in “
A Boy and His Samurai" (2010).
In 2011, she played the villain, ALIEN SALOME Ligier, in “Ultraman Premiere 2011”
on the stage.
She was the subject of the documentary film “Wake up in America" (2019).
The film was awarded "Special Thanks Award" by the Japan Film Festival of Los Angeles.
References
External links
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Toei Management artist profile
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1981 births
People from Shibuya
Aoyama Gakuin University alumni
Living people