Portrait of Tsuru Aoki

Tsuru Aoki

Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia Tsuru Aoki (September 9, 1892 – October 18, 1961) was a popular Japanese stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s. Aoki may have been the first Asian actress to garner top-billing in American motion pictures.

Born: September 9, 1892

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Empire of Japan [now Tokyo, Japan]

Filmography

1923
The Battle

as La Marquise Yorisaka

1922
1921
Black Roses

as Blossom (as Tsura Aoki)

1920
1920
A Tokyo Siren

as Asuti Hishuri

1919
Bonds of Honor

as Toku-ko (as Tsuri Aoki)

1919
1919
1919
1918
His Birthright

as Saki San

1918
1917
The Call of the East

as O'Mitsu, His Sister

1917
Each to His Kind

as Princess Nada

1916
1916
1914
The Last of the Line

as Girl at Riverside

1914
The Death Mask

as Princess Nona

1914
1914
O Mimi san

as O Mimi San