Ayako Fujitani

Ayako Fujitani (藤谷 文子 , Fujitani Ayako , born December 7, 1979) is a Japanese actress and writer.

Ayako Fujitani was born in Osaka, Japan. She is the daughter of Steven Seagal by his first wife, aikido master Miyako Fujitani. Her parents separated when she was a toddler. She resided in Los Angeles as a teenager.

Fujitani made her first television appearance in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, after a meeting at a film festival with director Shusuke Kaneko. She worked again with him on an episode of Ultraman Max, which he directed. Other film roles include parts in Sansa, the "Interior Design" segment of Tokyo!, and Man from Reno.

Fujitani wrote for the Japanese magazine Roadshow. She had published her coupled novellas Touhimu (Flee-Dream) and Yakeinu (Burnt Dog). Along with writer and director Hideaki Anno, Fujitani co-adapted her novella Touhimu (Flee-Dream) into the film Shiki-Jitsu in 2000, and starred in the lead role. It was the first non-animated feature released by Studio Ghibli under the Studio Kajino label.

Fujitani has written both fiction and non-fiction, contributing essays and short stories to various national publications.

In 2014, Fujitani co-wrote an Ermenegildo Zegna-commissioned short film with Park Chan-wook, Chung Chung-hoon, and Michael Werwie that Park also directed, and that Clint Mansell scored entitled A Rose Reborn starring Jack Huston and Daniel Wu.

In 2006, she directed a short drama for TV Tokyo's Drama Factory program.

She married screenwriter Javier Gullón in 2016. The couple have two daughters.