Ryoko Yonekura
Biography
Ryoko Yonekura (米倉 涼子 Yonekura Ryōko, born August 1, 1975 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actress and former fashion model best known for her role in the Japanese medical drama Doctor-X. Yonekura studied classical ballet for 15 years from the age of five. Represented by the Oscar Promotion agency, she won a national young beauty award in 1992. In 1993, she started her career as a model, working for fashion magazines such as CanCam. She announced her intention to start her acting career in June 1999. Her acting debut was in the TBS television drama Koi no Kamisama (God of Love), and has appeared in many dramas ever since. Yonekura played the role of Roxie Hart in the Japanese-language production of Chicago in Tokyo 2008 and in 2010. She then learned the role in English and made her Broadway debut in 2012, reprising her role in July 2017. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
The Housekeeper Saw!
as Sawaguchi Nobuko
2015
Bewitched in Tokyo SP
2004
Gun Crazy: Episode 1 — A Woman from Nowhere
as Saki
2002
Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special
2016
The Negotiator: The Movie
as Reiko Usagi
2010
The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
as Shino Wakamatsu
2008
Stop the Old Fox
as Nui
2016
The Da Vinci Code Mystery Special
2006
A Hardest Night!!
2005
Doctor X: The Movie Final
2024
Out Burn
as Eiko Yagami
2014
The Housekeeper
as Konno Nobuko
2012
Housekeeper the Peeper
as Nobuko Sawaguchi
2014
Tsuyoki ari
as Isako Sawada
2014
Giwaku
as Sahara Takako
2019
Cardboard House Girl
2001
愛と青春の宝塚～恋よりも生命よりも～
TBA
Angel Flight THE MOVIE
2026
The Black Leather Notebook Special: White Darkness
as Motoko Haraguchi
2005
TV Appearances
Love Revolution
as Mariko Endo
2001
Weather Forecaster's Lover
2000
Marriage at Twenty
as Ranko Chuganji
2000
Time of Distrust ~ Women's Wars
as Michiko Asai
2006
The Black Leather Notebook
as Motoko Haraguchi
2004
Musashi
as Otsu
2003
Unmarried Family
as Hikaru Matoba
2001
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
as Michiko Daimon
2012
Evil People
as Toyomi Terashima
2007
Artificial Beauty
as Honami Saotome
2002
The Animal Trail
as Tamiko Narusawa
2006
Straight News
as Yuka Ichino
2000