Rie Tomosaka, born in Nagano in 1979, has been a familiar face on Japanese screens since debuting as a teenager in the mid-nineties. She built her reputation on prime-time TV dramas, where her mix of coolness and vulnerability made her a fixture of trendy dramas of the late nineties and 2000s. She also moves in and out of film work and released records as a singer, marking her as a quiet but persistent triple threat. Rather than chasing tabloid fame, she has kept a low-key path that lets each role register on its own. Read more