Tanroh Ishida Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
• Began training in the traditional Japanese theater styles of Noh and Kyogen at the age of 3
• Made his screen acting debut in the short film "Eating Scarlet" in 2011
• Is the owner and artistic director of the theater company Tea Leaf Theatre
• Best known for his role as the Shogun's Adjutant in "47 Ronin" and as Young Nagase in "The Railway Man․"
• Performed the one-man show "Kyogen - Raw and Uncooked" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006
• Did voice-over and motion capture work for the video game "Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai" in 2012
• Performed in the play "Kyogen of Errors" at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London