Hiroyuki Sanada MBE (真田 広之, Sanada Hiroyuki, born October 12, 1960) is a Japanese actor.
Sanada was born Hiroyuki Shimosawa (下澤 廣之, Shimosawa Hiroyuki) in Tokyo, Japan. He began training with Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club. Originally aiming to be an action star, he developed good all-round martial arts ability. Due to a desire to expand his repertoire beyond action roles and being shocked into reassessing his life after the sudden death of his ...
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Hiroyuki Sanada MBE (真田 広之, Sanada Hiroyuki, born October 12, 1960) is a Japanese actor.
Sanada was born Hiroyuki Shimosawa (下澤 廣之, Shimosawa Hiroyuki) in Tokyo, Japan. He began training with Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club. Originally aiming to be an action star, he developed good all-round martial arts ability. Due to a desire to expand his repertoire beyond action roles and being shocked into reassessing his life after the sudden death of his mother to a stroke in 1989, Sanada left the Japan Action Club and founded his own production company, Libra International. Sanada expanded his roles to include a majority of non-action roles and won acclaim in Japan. He married the Japanese actress Satomi Tezuka in 1990, and the couple had two sons.
In 1995 Sanada was involved in an adulterous affair with Riona Hazuki, with whom he co-starred in Sharaku. The affair, a major entertainment scandal in Japan at the time, ended quickly and resulted in Sanada becoming divorced from his wife in 1997....
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