Miyazawa Rie

Rie Miyazawa
Rie Miyazawa at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival
Native name	宮沢 りえ
Born	(1973-04-06) April 6, 1973 (age 44) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	actress fashion model glamour model
Years active	1985–present
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)

Rie Miyazawa (宮沢 りえ, Miyazawa Rie, born April 6, 1973) is a Japanese actress and former fashion model and singer. She has done glamour modeling too, having released four photobooks. She is also well known as former fiancé of sumo wrestler Takanohana, to whom she was engaged for 2 months, and for her years of fighting anorexia nervosa.

Rie Miyazawa was born in Tokyo to a Dutch father and a Japanese mother. Since her debut at age 11 in an advertisement for Kit Kat, she has many films, television shows, commercials, stage appearances and photo books to her credit. She starred in the children's comedy Bokura no Nanokakan Sensō (Seven Days' War) and Tokyo Elevator Girl. Miyazawa made her debut as a singer on 15 September 1989, with her debut album MU.

She gained notoriety in 1991 with the publication of a Fine art nude photography book, Santa Fe, and even more publicity in 1992 by her engagement to sumo star Takanohana. The engagement was called off in 1993. In September 1994 she cut her wrists with a broken glass in what she described as an "accident". The tabloids focused on Miyazawa's drinking session, fights with her mother, and her escape to a nearby hotel as signs of a failed suicide attempt. Miyazawa continued to pursue her career as an actress, including a performance in Kon Ichikawa's movie Chushingura that year. But the following February she pulled out of the drama Kura and in November backed out of the musical Kyote.

In early 1996 Miyazawa moved to Coastal California, but by May she was back on TV reporting from the Cannes Film Festival and later that year she appeared in two TV dramas: Hanayome Kaizoebito and Kyosokyoku. In 1997 she made Mikeneko Homes (tasogare) Hoteru and also appeared on stage.