Sei Ashina Dies: ‘Silk’ Actress Was 36
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deadline.comGreg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticJapanese actress Sei Ashina was found dead in her Tokyo apartment Monday. Her agency and Tokyo police confirmed to Japanese media that she died by suicide.
Ashina was 36.Beginning her career as a model, Ashina made her acting debut in TBS’ 2002 drama The Tail of Happiness (Shiawase no Shippo).
In 2007, she was cast as the Japanese lead in François Girard Silk, a historical drama starring Michael Pitt and Keira Knightley as a 19th Century French silkworm smuggler and his wife who journey to Japan.Other credits include TV series Nanase: The Psychic Wanderers, Aibo: Tokyo Detective Duo, The Emperor’s Cook, Daisy Luck, Hand of God and this year’s Theseus no fune (Ship of Theseus) and the January.
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