Mayu Tsuruta

Mayu Tsuruta (鶴田 真由, born April 25, 1970 in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan) is an actress. In 1996 she was nominated by the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Supporting Actress in the film Kike wadatsumi no koe Last Friends. Following the chaos of Kenya's 2007 presidential election, on March 30, 2008, she visited thousands of internal refugees at Kenya's Nakuru ASK grounds, as a goodwill ambassador for Tokyo International Conference on African Development.^[1][2] While surveying the situation at the refugee camp, she spent time with several families and helped distribute food aid.^[2]

Partial filmography

1. Katenkoru (2005)
2. Year One in the North (北の零年, 2005)
3. 半落ち (Hanochi, 2004)
4. Mr. Rookie (ミスター・ルーキー, 2002)
5. Owls' Castle (梟の城, 1999)
6. きけ、わだつみの声　Last Friends (Kike wadatsumi no koe Last Friends, 1995)
7. 卒業旅行　ニホンから来ました (Sotsugyo ryoko: Nihon kara kimashita) (1994)

External links

• (Japanese) tsurutamayu.com
• (English) Mayu Tsuruta at the Internet Movie Database
• (Japanese) JMDb profile

References

1. ^ Actress Tsuruta visits Kenyan refugee camp as TICAD goodwill envoy
2. ^ ^{a b} Kenya: Japanese Actress Visits Chaos Victims

Persondata
Name	Tsuruta, Mayu
Alternative names
Short description	Actress
Date of birth	April 25, 1970
Place of birth	Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Date of death
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