Education
Kimiko graduated from Horikoshi High School in Nakano, Tokyo and subsequently attended Tamagawa University.
池上季実子
Kimiko graduated from Horikoshi High School in Nakano, Tokyo and subsequently attended Tamagawa University.
Born in Manhattan, New York City, she moved to Kyoto at age 3. With the encouragement of that cousin, Kimiko turned to acting. She made her television debut in 1975 in the Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai show Maboroshi no Pen Friend, and in that year also appeared in Ai to Makoto on television Tokyo.
Her entry into film came in 1975, when she appeared in Hadashi no Seishun (Shochiku).
In Taiga drama series, Kimiko portrayed Ōhime Kusa Moeru (1979) Chacha (later named Yodo-Dono) in the 1981 Onna Taikō-ki, Lady Tsukiyama (the wife of the title character) in Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983), and Eri (Lady Aburakawa, concubine of the title character) in Takeda Shingen. Other jidaigeki roles have included Sumi in the 1988 Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai Miyamoto Musashi Okon in Tōyama no Kin-san (1989), and Nami in the 2003 television Tokyo Chūshingura: Ketsudan no Toki.
Contemporary roles include the yakuza in Gokudō no Onna-tachi Revenge (the thirteenth in the series) and the female lead in Shiroi Kyotō (television Asahi, 1990). She appears frequently as a guest star on television series such as Mito Kōmon.
Kimiko also recorded a song, Nagasarete, on the Victor Entertainment label.
The 1984 release (as of 2006, out of print) was the theme song for the show Kiryūin Hanako no Shōgai. Her honors include the 1990 Japan Jewellery Association Best Dresser Award.