Ilonka Haruka Tatianna Orth (born in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Illinois

Illinois

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, USA, November 16, 1982) is an Hungarian American

Hungarian American

Hungarian Americans Hungarian are American citizens of Hungarian descent. The constant influx of Hungarian immigrants was marked by several waves of sharp increase.-History:...

 actress, director, and astrologer

Astrologer

An astrologer practices one or more forms of astrology. Typically an astrologer draws a horoscope for the time of an event, such as a person's birth, and interprets celestial points and their placements at the time of the event to better understand someone, determine the auspiciousness of an...

 who lives in Kichijoji

Kichijoji

is a neighborhood in the city of Musashino in Tokyo, Japan. It is centered on the commercial area to the north of its train station and has a youthful, artistic, slightly countercultural reputation...

, Tokyo, Japan. She is a graduate of International Christian University

International Christian University

There are several rankings related to ICU, shown below.-Alumni rankings:According to the Weekly Economist's 2010 rankings and the PRESIDENT's article on 2006/10/16, graduates from ICU have the 24th best employment rate in 400 major companies, and their average graduate salary is the 4th best in...

 in Mitaka, Tokyo

Mitaka, Tokyo

is a city located in Tokyo, Japan. As of 1 November 2010, the city has an estimated population of 176,737. The total area is 16.50 km² and is about 50 – 55 meters above sea level...

, Japan and currently works for the production agency R&A Promotion.

Fluent in Japanese, Orth is most known for her appearances on the Akashiya Sanma hosted variety program Koi no Karasawagi, her portrayal of the villain Marlene in the cult film Siberian Express 5, and her frequent participation in the program Waratte Iitomo

Waratte Iitomo

is a Japanese variety show aired every weekday on Fuji TV. The show is hosted by Tamori and has run since 1982. The show is produced in the Studio Alta building located in Shinjuku, Tokyo...

. She also gained notability for being the first non-Japanese to be featured in the long-running Saturday Wide Theatre, and was featured in newspapers across the country.

Orth performs in a variety of vaudeville

Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...

-style television shows, often introducing Hungarian food, customs and culture.

Theatre work

Orth is involved in Japanese theatre industry, translating foreign plays into Japanese and vice-versa, writing scripts, working in production, and participating as an actor in plays as well, when the script calls for a gaijin

Gaijin

is a Japanese word meaning "non-Japanese", or "alien". This word is a short form of gaikokujin , which literally means "person from outside of the country". The word is composed of two kanji: , meaning "outside"; and , meaning "person". Thus, the word technically means "outsider"...

. She also writes theatre reviews for Gekijo Magazine, and directs for Green Theatre in Ikebukuro

Ikebukuro

is a commercial and entertainment district in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. Toshima ward offices, Ikebukuro station, and several shops, restaurants, and enormous department stores are located within city limits....

.

She also is currently a reporter on the NHK program Journeys in Japan.

Movies

• Godzilla: Final Wars
  Godzilla: Final Wars
  is a 2004 Japanese science fiction-kaiju film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, written by Wataru Mimura and Isao Kiriyama and produced by Shogo Tomiyama. It is the twenty-eighth film in the Godzilla film series, and the sixth in terms of the series' Millennium era...
  
   (2004)
• Baruto no Gakuen
  Baruto no Gakuen
  is a Japanese film released in 2006 and based on the true story of the Bandō Prisoner of War camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture in Japan....
  
   (2005)
• The Uchoten Hotel
  The Uchoten Hotel
  is a 2006 comedy film written and directed by Japanese director Koki Mitani. The film is set in a five star Tokyo hotel on New Year's Eve, and follows the misadventures of various hotel staff and guests in the run-up to midnight.The film is reminiscent of the Hollywood screwball comedies of 1930s...
  
   (2006)
• Heat Island (2007)
• Tooku no Sora ni Kieta (2007)

Television drama

• Haruka 17
• Boku no Maho Tsukai
• Hagetaka
• Sandaime no Yome
• Seigi no Mikata

Theatre

• Kuroi Ame Ikegami Honmoji
• Ecstasy Naka-Meguro Rakuka
• Innerchild: Amenokuni Gonza Jiji Tsushin Hall
• Sono Oku He Geshihite Shimo Kitazawa Kuukan Liberty
• Teens Blues Naka-Meguro Woody Theatre

External links

• Personal website