Ryoko Yonekura Biography | Broadway Buzz

From 2012 to 2017, Ms. Yonekura starred on the hit Japanese TV series Doctor X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon, for which she earned the Hashida Award. The show’s fifth season became the most-watched TV series aired in 2017. Her other theater credits include Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (Kazuo Kikuta Drama Award winner) and Motoko Haraguchi in Kurokawa no techo. Her film and TV credits include Reiko Usagi in The Negotiator, Matsuko Matsudaira in Nasake no onna, Itsuki Takamura in Monster Parent, Nobuko Sawaguchi in Kaseifu wa mita! and Shoko Takanashi in Legal V. She played leading roles in all the credits above.