Ryohei Suzuki (鈴木 亮平,Suzuki Ryōhei; born March 29, 1983 inNishinomiya,Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan)[4] is a Japanese actor who is represented by the talent agencyHoripro.
Suzuki became interested in learning English after a visit to an uncle, who was living in Los Angeles when he was in Elementary school.[5]
He and his brother went to theYMCA when he was in elementary school. While in the third year of junior high school, he participated in a YMCA program in Nishinomiya City. Words from a teacher in the YMCA remained in him, motivating him to study hard, taking his English classes seriously.[5]
While in the second and third years of junior high school, he did short-term homestays (one to two-week periods) in the United States and Australia. He then went to study abroad for one year, to rural Oklahoma, United States, while he was in high school.[5] According to a comment on a TV program, Suzuki's reason to go abroad to study, was his first love.[6]
He also became interested in German, after "falling in love with a German girl", as he said in a program.[6] He wonDokkyo University's National High School German Speech Contest in 2000.[7]
When he was a student, he worked part-time inNHK.[8]
Ryohei Suzuki played a role in the Netflix film City Hunter (2024), an action adaptation of 1980s manga.[9] He earned both the Best Leading Actor and Best Comedy Performance awards at the Asian Academy Creative Awards in Singapore.[10] Additionally, City Hunter won Best Feature at the same awards.[11]
Ryohei earned five Best Supporting Actor awards as well as the Japan Academy Prize for playing the role of a yakuza in The Blood of Wolves: Level 2 (2021).[12] That same year, he earned Best Actor at the Asian Contents Awards in Korea for his role in Tokyo MER (2022).[13] Its sequel film was released in 2023.[14]
In 2023, he starred in Egoist, an independent feature about a same-sex relationship.[15] Suzuki's performance earned him the Rising Star Award at the New York Asian Film Festival[16] and a nomination for Best Actor at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong.[17]
Suzuki announce his marriage to a non-celebrity woman who works for a web-related company in Tokyo, via his agency on July 28, 2011. He met her while he was a model. The wedding ceremony and reception were held on July 24 at a hotel in Tokyo with only close relatives.[2] They welcomed their first child, a girl, on November 17, 2011, at a hospital in Tokyo. He reported this the same day on his official blog.[3]
^"第2部―対話部門―".Dokkyo University official page (in Japanese). Archived fromthe original on 8 October 2024. Retrieved8 October 2024.
^"ステラ".Ameba Blog "Neutral" Ryohei Suzuki's official blog (in Japanese). 17 June 2014. Archived fromthe original on 9 July 2014. Retrieved7 October 2024.
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