Actress Sei Ashina Passes Away at 36

Actress Sei Ashina Passes Away At 36
Actress Sei Ashina Passes Away at 36
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Japanese actress Sei Ashina Passes Away at her Tokyo apartment on Monday, The Japan Times reported. She was 36. The publication reported that the initial investigation has led the authorities to believe that this was a suicide. As per Variety, no note was found in the apartment. The Sei Ashina dead body was reportedly discovered by her brother after she stopped answering messages and calls a day prior.

Born in 1983 in Fukushima Prefecture as Igarashi Aya, she came to Tokyo while still a teenager and soon found work as a fashion model. She made her acting debut in 2002 in the TBS network drama “The Tail of Happiness” (“Shiawase no Shippo”). Beating nearly 800 other hopefuls, Ashina was cast as the Japanese lead in the 2007 François Girard historical drama “Silk,” a Japanese, Canadian and Italian co-production.

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She accumulated numerous TV and film credits in the past decade, including a lead role in the 2010 Kazuya Konaka drama “Nanase: The Psychic Wanderers” and a continuing role from 2017 to this year in the popular TV Asahi series “Aibo: Tokyo Detective Duo,” whose 19th season will air from October. She also worked as a voice actor, including the lead role of Emily Thorne in the 2011 US series “Revenge.”Actress Sei Ashina Passes Away at 36.

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