Rie Shibata (柴田 理恵, Shibata Rie, born 14 January 1959) is a Japanese actress and comedian who has appeared in a number of television programmes, feature films and stage productions.
After graduating from university, she joined the Gekidan Tokyo Vodovil Show, but withdrew in 1984, and launched Wahaha-Hompo with Masahiro Sato and Masami Hisamoto.
[2] Since then she has broadened her range of activities for films, television dramas, and variety shows.
[3] In early days of her career, she appeared as a recurring role in the "Mysterious Comedy Series" produced by Fuji TV and Toei.
She made her Hollywood debut playing a high school teacher in the film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, produced by Universal Pictures in the United States in 2006.