Acting

Tsuru Aoki

Born 9 September 1892 · Tokyo, Empire of Japan [now Tokyo, Japan] · Died 18 October 1961 at 69

From Wikipedia Tsuru Aoki (September 9, 1892 – October 18, 1961) was a popular Japanese stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s. Aoki may have been the first Asian actress to garner top-billing in American motion pictures.