Kie Kitano

Kie Kitano arrived the way many Japanese actresses do: very young, all at once, cast for a kind of luminous freshness. That launch pad tends to burn people out. I have watched it happen repeatedly, the roles drying up the moment a performer stops being a teenager. She did not go that way. Born in Yokosuka in 1991, 158 cm, she has kept both acting and music work alive, and at 35 her name is still current. What I respect is that she does not seem to be trading on the version of herself audiences first met as a teenager. She turns up at whatever age she actually is, which is rarer than it sounds. A career that stops producing headlines but does not stop producing work is, to me, the correct outcome for anyone who wants to do this for a lifetime.

Name (English)

Kie Kitano

Name (Japanese)

北乃きい

Born

March 15, 1991 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

Origin

Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

158 cm

Occupation

actor / singer

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://avexnet.or.jp/kie/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kie.kitano.official/
• Xhttps://x.com/Kie_Mane
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E4%B9%83%E3%81%8D%E3%81%84

Tags

• Kanagawa Prefecture
• actor
• singer

Last updated

2026-07-26

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.