Actor

Sayaka Kanda

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Movies: 18Series: 8Crew credits: 3

TMDB ID: 1057409

IMDb ID: nm1665832

Known for: Acting

Born: October 1, 1986

Died: December 18, 2021

Age: 35

Place of birth: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2001 - 2022

Years active: 22

Average TMDB rating: 7.32

Wikidata: Q430602

Also known as

神田沙也加 • かんださやか • SAYAKA • ALICE • ALICes • アリセス • Kanda Sayaka

Other jobs

Theme Song Performance (2)Lyricist (1)

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Biography

Born in Tokyo in 1986. While attending school in Los Angeles in 1999, she appeared in the short film "Bean Cake" directed by David Greenspan. The film won the Palme d'Or (highest award) for short films at the 54th Cannes Film Festival in 2001. She debuted as SAYAKA in 2001. Since then, she has attracted attention for her work in the commercial "Ice no Mi," the theme song for the drama "ever since," the heroine of the movie "Dragon Head," and the stage play "INTO THE WOODS." Since then, she has been active in commercials, movies, dramas, stage plays, and musicals, focusing on her singing career, and in December 2006, she changed her stage name from SAYAKA to her real name, Sayaka Kanda. Since then, she has been active mainly in stage plays and musicals. She has performed in hit productions such as "The Tale of Murasaki Shikibu," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Woman in White," "Dream Person," "Grease," "Les Miserables," "She Loves Me," "Gekidan Shinkansen Rose and Samurai ~ GoemonRock OverDrive," "Peter Pan," and "The Fantasticks." She is currently attracting a lot of attention as a talented actress.

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