Masumi Okada

Japanese actor (1935–2006) Masumi OkadaBornOtto Sevaldsen(1935-09-22)September 22, 1935Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FranceDiedMay 29, 2006(2006-05-29) (aged 70)Tokyo, JapanOther name'Fanfan'EducationSaint Joseph College, YokohamaOccupationsActorproducersingercomediantelevision personalitySpouses Mamako Yoneyama Midori Fujita Keiko Yarita Children4RelativesEline Eriksen (aunt)Japanese nameKanji岡田眞澄Hiraganaおかだ ますみKatakanaオカダ マスミTranscriptionsRomanizationOkada Masumi Masumi Okada (岡田眞澄, Okada Masumi; born Otto Sevaldsen; September 22, 1935 – May 29, 2006) was a French-born Japanese actor, tarento, and film producer. Early life Okada was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father and a Danish mother. His father, Minoru Okada, was an artist and his mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the "Mermaid of Copenhagen". He had an elder brother, Taibi Okada, who later became a tarento under the stage name 'E.H. Eric." French law at the time meant that Okada was initially registered under his Western name - Otto Sevaldsen. He was raised in a multilingual environment, fluent in French, Japanese, and (later) En