Member Profile
Izumi Hasegawa
- Primary Outlet:
- Hollywood News Wire Inc.
- Additional Outlets:
- Rafu.com
- Website:
- http://WhatsUpHollywood.com
- Twitter:
- @HNW_izumi
- Facebook:
- izumihasegawa.hollywood
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/izumi-hasegawa-626303a/
- Biography:
- Izumi Hasegawa is an entertainment journalist based in Los Angeles. She has interviewed more than 5000 stars and filmmakers, including Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie and more. She has covered innumerable film and television awards, premieres, press junkets in more than 20 years as a journalist. She won the Los Angeles Press Club’s 51st Annual Southern California Journalist Awards: Columnist or Critic International Journalism, and she was nominated for Entertainment Journalist of the Year. Izumi was born and raised in the Izumo region in Japan, which is the hometown of much Japanese mythology. Since she was little, movies have been always an important part of her life, because all the local movie theaters were on her way to school, and because the Shinto Shrine which her family runs hosted movie events every summer. Before moving to the U.S. to become a film journalist, she was a broadcaster in Japan. She is also currently working as a Shinto priest - uniquely the only Shinto priest who is also a film journalist in the world!