Ryuhei Matsuda (松田 龍平,Matsuda Ryūhei; born 9 May 1983) is a Japanese film and television actor. Matsuda's best known film roles include the young and desirable samurai Sōzaburō Kanō inTaboo and the rock star Ren Honjo inNana.
Matsuda was born on 9 May 1983 in Tokyo, toYūsaku Matsuda, a Japanese actor of partialKorean ancestry,[1] andMiyuki Matsuda (née Kumagai), a Japanese actress. He has two younger siblings, a younger brother,Shota Matsuda, who is also an actor, and a younger sister, Yuuki Matsuda, who is a singer, and one older half-sister by his father's first marriage. His father died frombladder cancer in 1989, when Ryuhei was six years old.[2] He attendedHorikoshi High School, a Japanese high school that caters to celebrity students, but did not graduate.[3]
At age 15, Matsuda was offered the role of the desirable youngsamurai Kanō Sōzaburō inNagisa Ōshima's 1999 filmTaboo. The role helped boost him from an entirely unknown actor to a film star, earning him a Japanese Academy award "Newcomer of the Year", as well as "Blue Ribbon", "Kinema Junpo", and "Yokohama Film Festival" Awards for the "Best New Actor".[citation needed]
Since appearing inTaboo, Matsuda has played a wide range of roles, from the high school student Kujo in the 2001 filmBlue Spring to the rock star Ren Honjo in the 2005 filmNana. In February 2013, it was revealed that Matsuda would play the part of a Japanese gangster in the sequel to the 2012 Indonesian filmThe Raid, namedBerandal.[4]
In 2020 portrayedRyūnosuke Akutagawa in the filmA Stranger in Shanghai. It depicts Akutagawa's time in as a reporter in the city.[5]
Matsuda is married to Mala Morgan, aBritish-Japanese model with whom he has a fourteen-year age gap.[6] The two wed on 20 October 2021 after dating for three years and have one son together, born 12 March 2022.[7]
Matsuda was previously married to Russian-Japanese actress and modelRina Ōta. They have one child together, a daughter, born 4 July 2009.[8] They wed on 11 January 2009 and divorced in December 2017.[9]
Matsuda won a Japanese Academy Award for the "Best Supporting Actor" in the 2011 filmTantei wa Bar ni Iru,[28] and Nikkan Sports Film Award for the "Best Actor" in the 2013 filmThe Great Passage.[29]
^"松田龍平の妻・モーガン茉愛羅が男児出産を報告「一人間として、そして母として、これからも成長」" [Ryuhei Matsuda's wife, Morgan Maria, announces the birth of a baby boy: "He will continue to grow as a person and as a mother"].ORICON NEWS. 14 March 2022. Archived fromthe original on 27 April 2022. Retrieved28 May 2024.
