Biography

Shie Kohinata (小日向しえ, Kohinata Shie, born 8 October 1979) is a Japanese actress, tarento, and singer. She is from Tokyo. She has one younger brother. She was formerly represented by Space Craft. At the age of fifteen she met her father's acquaintance production president, and debuted as a model at Soen. After working as a model in female magazines such as Olive and an an, she became an actress. She also appeared in films, television dramas, and variety shows.

From 1997 she has also performed as a singer, releasing six single songs and one album from Victor Entertainment.

As an actor, her primary roles have been as young office ladies, young wives, Yankee women, etc., and she has appeared in female teams with Yuki Matsushita, Maki Sakai and others.

After getting married, she left the program on 4 June 2003 in order to concentrate on her music career.

In the Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! (Nippon TV) corner "Waratte haikenai Series", apart from Matsumoto and Yamazaki, the "(original) wives" (Natsumi Ogawa, Chiaki) had appeared, although only "Tanaka's wife" had not appeared for a long time. With the 2012 broadcast, in the office of the school official Miyuki Oshima she first appeared as a woman wrapped in a mysterious Man in the Iron Mask fighting Goriraimo.