Chieko Higashiyama (東山 千栄子, Higashiyama Chieko, 30 September 1890 – 8 May 1980) was a Japanese stage and film actress.

Graduating from the girls' school at Gakushuin, she married a businessman in 1909 and spent eight years in Moscow.

[1] In 1925, at the age of 35, she decided to become an actress and began training at the Tsukiji Shōgekijō.

[1] She appeared in many stage productions, most famously as Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard.

[1] She also appeared in films, including Tokyo Story, which was voted the best film of all time in a poll of film directors by Sight and Sound magazine.