Tsuyoshi Kusanagi is an actor and singer. Born July 9, 1974 in Saitama Prefecture. Blood type: A. Belongs to CULEN. Former member of the idol group SMAP. Debuted in 1991 with the single “Can’t Stop!! -LOVING-“. After appearing on the variety show “Chonan Kang”, he also worked in Korea. As an actor, he has appeared in the drama “Good Person” (1997), the film “Return from the Underworld” (2002), the drama “My Way of Life” (2003), the drama “Me, Her, and Her Way of Life” (2004), the film “Japan Sinks” (2006), the drama “The Way I Walk” (2006), the drama “Ninkyo Helper” (2009), the film “1778 Stories of Me and My Wife” (2010), the drama “Bachelor Aristocrat” (2013), the drama “The War of Money” (2015), and the drama “The War of Lies” (2017). In September 2017, Goro Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, and Shingo Katori launched the fan site “New Map”. It was fully launched in October of the same year. He won the Best Actor Award at the 44th Japan Academy Awards and the Best Actor Award at the 63rd Blue Ribbon Awards for his role in the film “Midnight Swan” released in 2020. Since then, he has appeared in the NHK Taiga drama “Seiten wo Tsuke” (2021), the drama “Trap War” (2023), and the NHK morning drama “Boogie Woogie” (2023). He has also been active in a wide range of fields, including narrating the NHK program “Buratamori”. In December 2020, he married an ordinary woman.