ACTOR

Miiko Taka

1925 - 2023

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Miiko Taka (高美以子, Taka Miiko) (born Miiko Shikata July 24, 1925 – January 4, 2023) was an American actress, popular for her film and television roles from the late 1950s until the early 1980s. Her best known role was as an elegant Japanese dancer starring with Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara. She also acted in several other films and TV shows with fellow performers such as Miyoshi Umeki, James Garner, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and Toshirō Mifune. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Miiko Taka is the 5,084th most popular actor (up from 5,929th in 2024), the 7,946th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,707th in 2019) and the 2,320th most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Miiko Taka ranks 5,085 out of 13,578. Before her are Mehmet Günsür, Annette Charles, Jill Esmond, Grażyna Szapołowska, Omar Epps, Sam Riley, and Maury Chaykin. After her are Amy Smart, Yoo Ah-in, Virginia Grey, Juliet Mills, and Zhou Xun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Miiko Taka ranks 390. Before her are Ruth First, Olga Aroseva, Bert Bolin, Károly Makk, Jean Cau, and Rosemary Murphy. After her are Carla Del Poggio, Andrei Eshpai, Álvaro Magaña, Charles Haughey, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, and Pasieguito. Among people deceased in 2023, Miiko Taka ranks 401. Before her are Georges Bereta, Günther Herrmann, George Winston, Jimmy Buffett, Nicolae Neagoe, and Jaak Lipso. After her are Mikio Aoki, Mudar Badran, Alain Besançon, Anita Thallaug, Chuck Feeney, and Atsushi Sakurai.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Miiko Taka ranks 7,949 out of 20,380. Before her are Omar Epps (1973), Arthur Barnard (1929), Jacqueline Susann (1918), Bill Nieder (1933), Georgia Coleman (1912), Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877), and Maury Chaykin (1949). After her are Patricia Hill Collins (1948), Albert Ammons (1907), Amy Smart (1976), John Thomas (1941), and Frank Lubin (1910).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Miiko Taka ranks 2,321. Before her are Krysten Ritter (1981), Wendie Jo Sperber (1958), Armie Hammer (1986), Annette Charles (1948), Omar Epps (1973), and Maury Chaykin (1949). After her are Amy Smart (1976), Virginia Grey (1917), Elizabeth Hartman (1943), Grace Park (1974), Tisha Campbell-Martin (1968), and Constance Towers (1933).

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