Akira Terao
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Akira Terao (寺尾 聰 Terao Akira?, born May 18, 1947) is Japanese musician and movie actor.
Terao was born in Yokohama (Kanagawa prefecture) in Japan, son of an actor and film director Jukichi Uno.
Terao was known mostly in Japan for his album Reflections (リフレクションズ?), which sold in 1980s in Japan in more than one and a half million copies and the hit song Ruby No Yubiwa (ルビーの指環?).
As an actor he debuted as Kenichi in ’’Chikadô no taiyô made’’ - a film directed by Kei Kumai in 1968. In 1985 he started to work with Akira Kurosawa in Ran. Five years later he appeared as "I" in Kurosawa's Dreams. He has also worked with director Takashi Koizumi in After the Rain and The Professor's Beloved Equation. As for dramas, Terao has acted with Kazunari Ninomiya in Yasashii Jikan as well as in the latest Takuya Kimura helmed drama, Change (Spring 2008).
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