Kimiko Ikegami (?????, Ikegami Kimiko, born January 16, 1959) is a Japanese actress. Born in Manhattan, New York City, she moved to Kyoto at age 3. Kimiko graduated from Horikoshi High School in Nakano, Tokyo and subsequently attended Tamagawa University. She is closely related to the Band? Mitsugor? kabuki actors: her grandfather was the eighth, her uncle the ninth (later Band? Minosuke VII), her cousin (Band? Yasosuke V) the tenth to take that name. With the encouragement of that cousin, Kimiko turned to acting.She made her television debut in 1975 in the NHK show Maboroshi no Pen Friend, and in that year also appeared in Ai to Makoto on TV Tokyo. Her entry into film came in 1975, when she appeared in Hadashi no Seishun (Shochiku). In Taiga drama series, Kimiko portrayed ?hime Kusa Moeru (1979) Chacha (later named Yodo-Dono) in the 1981 Onna Taik?-ki, Lady Tsukiyama (the wife of the title character) in Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983), and Eri (Lady Aburakawa, concubine of the title character) in Takeda Shingen. Other jidaigeki roles have included Sumi in the 1988 NHK Miyamoto Musashi Okon in T?yama no Kin-san (1989), and Nami in the 2003 TV Tokyo Ch?shingura: Ketsudan no Toki. Contemporary roles include the yakuza in Gokud? no Onna-tachi Revenge (the thirteenth in the series) and the female lead in Shiroi Kyot? (TV Asahi, 1990). She appears frequently as a guest star on television series such as Mito K?mon.Kimiko also recorded a song, Nagasarete, on the Victor Entertainment label. The 1984 release (as of 2006, out of print) was the theme song for the show Kiry?in Hanako no Sh?gai.Her honors include the 1990 Japan Jewellery Association Best Dresser Award.