Biography: Yôko Shimada

Birth Name: 中村 ようこ

Birth Date: May 17, 1953

Birth Place: Kumamoto, Japan

Yoko Shimada, born in Kumamoto City, Japan (1953), started learning ballet at age three, aspiring to be a ballerina. She moved to Tokyo at eight and began acting during her junior high school years. Her breakthrough role came with the TV serial 'Zoku Hyoten' in 1970. She gained international recogni...