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Tsuru Aoki

1892 - 1961

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Tsuru Aoki (青木 鶴, Aoki Tsuru; September 9, 1892 – October 18, 1961) was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific in the United States during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s. Aoki may have been the first Asian actress to garner top billing in American motion pictures. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tsuru Aoki is the 3,871st most popular actor (down from 2,785th in 2019), the 1,176th most popular biography from Japan (down from 957th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Japanese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Tsuru Aoki ranks 3,871 out of 13,578Before her are Chuck Connors, Harry Hamlin, Lillie Langtry, Chris Farley, Pearl White, and Patrick Bergin. After her are Margarita Xirgu, Rance Howard, Ratna Pathak, Ed Wynn, Alfred Abel, and Gladys Cooper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Tsuru Aoki ranks 205Before her are Jason Robards Sr., Kiyotake Kawaguchi, Adolf van der Voort van Zijp, Jaan Kikkas, Walter Bathe, and Bessie Coleman. After her are Gaetano Belloni, Pierre Frieden, Ferde Grofé, Cuno Hoffmeister, Gerhard Rohlfs, and Lydia Lopokova. Among people deceased in 1961, Tsuru Aoki ranks 129Before her are Ruth Fischer, Kiyotake Kawaguchi, Giulio Cabianca, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Beals Wright, and María de Zayas. After her are Lajos Dinnyés, Alberto Chividini, Scott LaFaro, Şemsettin Günaltay, Tiny Sandford, and Olav Bjaaland.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsuru Aoki ranks 1,176 out of 6,245Before her are Yuriko Shima (1959), Shoichi Sakata (1911), Kosuke Suzuki (1981), Yukio Endo (1937), Kusuo Kitamura (1917), and Kanno Sugako (1881). After her are Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Seiko Matsuda (1962), Masatoshi Shima (1943), Makino Nobuaki (1861), and Masuyo Shiraishi (1963).

Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Tsuru Aoki ranks 53Before her are Minoru Chiaki (1917), Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928), Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), Akira Kamiya (1946), Ayako Wakao (1933), and Toshio Furukawa (1946). After her are Megumi Hayashibara (1967), Isuzu Yamada (1917), Yūjirō Ishihara (1934), Takehito Koyasu (1967), Eiji Okada (1920), and Isao Kimura (1923).