- Born
- Birth nameReiko Monica Aylesworth
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Reiko was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois with her younger brother and single mother. Her mother worked as a counselor in a methadone clinic and later ran a rehabilitation corrections facility. As a teen, she moved to Seattle, WA where she briefly attended the University of Washington. She then moved to NYC and soon began acting in new and developing plays in off-broadway and regional theaters. Among the playwrights were John Patrick Shanley, Anna Deavere Smith, Eric Bogosian, Lyle Kessler. She's also worked with Obie and Tony winning theater directors such as Marshall Mason, Jo Bonney, Robert O'Hara as well as many other respected theater makers. Her breakthrough came with the role of Michelle Dessler on the critically acclaimed series, 24. She's also had ongoing roles on Lost, Damages, Hawaii 5-0 and has worked on many other television shows, films and plays. More recently, she's expanded her career to include VoiceOver work, including Lady Bullseye in the Marvel animated show, Hit Monkey. She's also directed and produced 2 award winning short films. Her husband, Rob Clare is a well-respected Shakespeare teacher and director. They are an adoptive family with a child who was born in 2014.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Reiko was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois with her younger brother and mother, who worked as a counselor in a methadone clinic and later ran a rehabilitation corrections facility. As a teen, Reiko met her step-father, who worked in prisons doing drama therapy and introduced Reiko to acting. The family moved to Seattle, where Reiko briefly attended the University of Washington. She then moved to NYC and began acting in new and developing plays with Obie and Tony winning playwrights and directors, such as John Patrick Shanley, Anna Deavere Smith, Eric Bogosian, Lyle Kessler, Marshall Mason, Jo Bonney and Robert O'Hara. Her breakthrough came with the role of Michelle Dessler on the critically acclaimed series, 24. She's had ongoing roles on Lost, Damages, Hawaii 5-0 and has worked on many other television shows, films and plays. She's directed 2 award winning short films. Her VoiceOver work includes Lady Bullseye in the Marvel animated show, Hit Monkey. Reiko returned to school and received her MFA in Acting Pedagogy in 2022. Her husband, Rob Clare is a well-respected Shakespeare teacher and director. They have one child who was born in 2014.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseRobert Clare(June 28, 2013 - present)
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Curly hair
- Her first name is pronounced "Ray-co," and means "child of thankfulness" in Japanese.
- Her ancestry is one quarter Japanese, one quarter Ashkenazi Jewish, one quarter Dutch, and one quarter mostly British Isles (Welsh, English, Scottish), with distant Swedish on that line.
- Was one of the three finalists for the role of Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). The role eventually went to Mariska Hargitay.
- Is extremely good at pool, having learned how to play in high school.
- Her paternal grandfather had Welsh, English, Scottish, and distant Swedish, ancestry, and her paternal grandmother was the daughter of Japanese parents. Reiko's mother was born in South Africa, to Dutch parents who had left occupied Holland during WWII, as her own father had been Jewish. Reiko's mother was partly raised in Holland and Great Britain but came to the U.S. as a child and grew up in Chicago.
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