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.

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Name (English)

Kie Kitano

Name (Japanese)

北乃きい

Reading

きたの きい

Born

March 15, 1991 (age 35)

Origin

Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

158 cm

Occupation

actor / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

Blood type

O

Agency

フォスタープラス

Active years

2005 -

Works summary

Appearances

172 (2005–2026)

By year

2005: 1, 2006: 4, 2007: 5, 2008: 7, 2009: 4, 2010: 16, 2011: 8, 2012: 7, 2013: 10, 2014: 7, 2015: 2, 2016: 3, 2017: 4, 2018: 3, 2019: 5, 2020: 5, 2021: 4, 2022: 6, 2023: 4, 2024: 7, 2025: 5, 2026: 5

Debut work

夏の記憶

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://avexnet.or.jp/kie/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kie.kitano.official/
• Xhttps://x.com/Kie_Mane
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kie%20Kitano
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E4%B9%83%E3%81%8D%E3%81%84
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q850695

Tags

• Kanagawa Prefecture
• actor
• singer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.