Ryoko Yonekura

Biography

Ryoko Yonekura (米倉 涼子 Yonekura Ryōko, born August 1, 1975 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actress and former fashion model best known for her role in the Japanese medical drama Doctor-X.

Yonekura studied classical ballet for 15 years from the age of five. Represented by the Oscar Promotion agency, she won a national young beauty award in 1992. In 1993, she started her career as a model, working for fashion magazines such as CanCam. She announced her intention to start her acting career in June 1999. Her acting debut was in the TBS television drama Koi no Kamisama (God of Love), and has appeared in many dramas ever since.

Yonekura played the role of Roxie Hart in the Japanese-language production of Chicago in Tokyo 2008 and in 2010. She then learned the role in English and made her Broadway debut in 2012, reprising her role in July 2017.

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Known For

Angel Flight THE MOVIE 2026
Doctor X: The Movie Final 2024 ★ 7.5
Angel Flight 2023
The Journalist 2022 ★ 7.4
Legal V 2018 ★ 7.2
Doctor-Y ~Gekai Kaji Hideki~ 2016 ★ 6.5
No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35 2013 ★ 6.7
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon 2012 ★ 7.5
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money 2011 ★ 8.0
HUNT - Tax Investigation Officer 2010
The Negotiator 2008 ★ 6.8
Evil People 2007 ★ 7.0
Over-the-Shoulder Lover 2007 ★ 8.0
The Animal Trail 2006 ★ 6.0
Time of Distrust ~ Women's Wars 2006
Matrilineal Family 2005
Haru and Natsu 2005 ★ 7.8
The Black Leather Notebook 2004 ★ 8.0
Musashi 2003 ★ 8.4
Artificial Beauty 2002 ★ 9.0
Pretty Girls 2002
Unmarried Family 2001 ★ 8.0
Marriage at Twenty 2000 ★ 9.0
Weather Forecaster's Lover 2000