Gorō Inagaki

In a five-man group of superstars, someone ends up being the quiet one, and in SMAP that was Goro Inagaki. He never worked by volume or by punchline; his register was books, film and the stage, discussed in his own words rather than a producer's. Born in Tokyo in 1973 and a Horikoshi High School graduate, he spent decades inside the biggest pop act Japan has produced, and when it dissolved he did not retreat into nostalgia. In 2017 he started again with Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Shingo Katori as Atarashii Chizu, rebuilding a name from scratch in his forties, which is a genuinely frightening thing to choose. He kept acting and kept singing. That reads to me like someone who actually loves the work.

Name (English)

Gorō Inagaki

Name (Japanese)

稲垣吾郎

Reading

いながき ごろう

Born

December 8, 1973 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

176 cm

Occupation

actor / singer / seiyū

High school

Horikoshi High School

• Official sitehttps://contents.atarashiichizu.com/?page_id=25
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/goro_inagaki_official/
• Xhttps://x.com/ingkgrofficial
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goro%20Inagaki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A8%B2%E5%9E%A3%E5%90%BE%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1197189

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• singer
• seiyū

Last updated

2026-07-27

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.