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Hiroyuki Sanada

1960 - Today

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Hiroyuki Sanada (Japanese: 真田 広之; né Shimozawa; born 12 October 1960) is a Japanese actor. He has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Television Award, a Japan Academy Film Prize, two Hochi Film Awards, a Mainichi Film Award, three Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, four Kinema Junpo Awards, and honors from the Yokohama Film Festival. In 2018, he received the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from the Japanese government for his "artistic developments, improvements, and accomplishments", and in 2025, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Sanada began his career in the mid-1960s at the age of five, and was the protégé of actor Sonny Chiba. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hiroyuki Sanada is the 677th most popular actor (up from 820th in 2019), the 214th most popular biography from Japan (up from 290th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Hiroyuki Sanada ranks 677 out of 13,578. Before him are Walter Brennan, Erland Josephson, Robert Walker, John Heard, Jean Rochefort, and Michelle Phillips. After him are Sam Elliott, Lee Byung-hun, Robert Englund, Margot Robbie, Cantinflas, and Totò.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Hiroyuki Sanada ranks 38. Before him are Ebrahim Raisi, Ivan Lendl, Andreas Brehme, Brian Cowen, Kim Ki-duk, and Eric Adams. After him are Damon Hill, BD Wong, Gustavo Petro, Jafar Panahi, Kelly LeBrock, and Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroyuki Sanada ranks 214 out of 6,245. Before him are Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), and Taira no Kiyomori (1118). After him are Tsukasa Hosaka (1937), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Shojiro Sugimura (1905), Ryuzo Shimizu (1902), Yosa Buson (1716), and Arawa Kimura (1931).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Hiroyuki Sanada ranks 7. Before him are Olivia de Havilland (1916), Mako (1933), Liv Ullmann (1938), Joan Fontaine (1917), Sonny Chiba (1939), and Ken Watanabe (1959). After him are Ken Takakura (1931), Takashi Shimura (1905), Victoria Principal (1950), Setsuko Hara (1920), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950), and Tatsuya Nakadai (1932).

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