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Teruko Nakagami (Billy Dee Williams’s Wife) Bio, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth

This is all you need to know about Teruko Nakagami, a Japanese-American widely known as the third wife of an American actor, voice actor, and artist Billy Dee Williams. Quick facts are listed below:

  • Full Name: Teruko Nakagami
  • Gender: Female
  • Age: 77 years old
  • Birth Date: Not known
  • Place Of Birth: Chicago, United States
  • Zodiac Sign: Not known
  • Salary: Not known
  • Net Worth: $1 million – $5 million dollars
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Husband: Billy Dee Williams (m. 1972), Wayne Shorter (m. 1961–1964)
  • Height: 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 meters)
  • Children: Hanako Williams, and Miyako Shorter
  • Mother’s Name: Not known
  • Father’s Name: Not known
  • Profession: Celebrity wife

Teruko Nakagami Biography

Teruko Nakagami is a Japanese-American widely known as the third wife of an American actor, voice actor, and artist Billy Dee Williams. She is a Japanese American who was born in Chicago.

Teruko was originally named Irene but changed her name to Teruko after meeting Shorter. When Teruko was six, she and her twin sister were shipped off to a Japanese-American internment camp in California.

Teruko Nakagami Age

Teruko is 77 years old as of 2024, she was born in Chicago, the United States of America. However, her husband Billy Dee Williams is 86 years old as of 2023, he was born on April 6, 1937, in New York, New York, United States as William December Williams Jr.

Teruko Nakagami Height

Teruko stands at an average height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 meters) tall. However, her husband Billy Dee Williams stands at a height of 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) tall and weighs around 76 kg (167 lbs).

Teruko Nakagami Family – Parents

Teruko was born and raised by her loving and caring mother and father in Chicago, the United States of America. After doing our research, details about her family, siblings, and parents are not publicly available.

However, her husband Billy Dee Williams is the lovely son of Loretta Anne (1915–2016), an elevator operator at the Lyceum Theatre and an aspiring performer from Montserrat, along with William December Williams Sr. (1909–1973), an African-American caretaker, with some Native American ancestry from Texa

Billy Dee was born on April 6, 1937, in New York, New York, United States as William December Williams Jr. He was raised with his twin sister Loretta in Harlem.

Teruko Nakagami Siblings

Teruko’s siblings are not publicly known. After doing our research, details about her siblings are not publicly available. However, this section is under review and we are keeping tabs and will update these details once it is out.

Teruko Nakagami Education

Information about Teruko’s education is not publicly available as of now. However, her husband Billy Dee Williams attended Booker T. Washington Junior High School where he had dreams of being a painter.

He graduated in the year 1955 from the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan, where he majored in arts with a focus on visual arts. The school would later be the subject of Fame (1980), as well as its derivative television series.

Teruko Nakagami Husband

Teruko has been married woman to her lovely husband Billy Dee Williams since 1972. They had a daughter together named Hanako Williams, Hanako was born in 1973. Hanako now serves as the manager of an art gallery in Los Angeles. She is married and has one son.

Billy Dee has been married 3 times and has three children and two grandchildren. His first marriage was to Audrey Sellers in the year 1959. They were divorced some years later, after which Billy apparently became depressed. Billy stated that (there was a period when he was very despondent, broke, and depressed, his first marriage was on the rocks.)

They had a son, Corey Dee Williams, born in the year 1960, in 1968, he married model and actress Marlene Clark in Hawaii. They divorced in the year 1971, Billy moved from New York City to California in the year 1971.

Billy married Teruko Nakagami on December 27, 1972. Teruko brought a daughter, Miyako (born 1962), from her previous marriage to musician Wayne Shorter. Together they have a daughter, Hanako (born in 1973).

In the year 1984, he bought a “Zen-like contemporary” home in the Trousdale Estates neighborhood of Beverly Hills, California; he sold it in the year 2012. Billy filed for an amicable divorce from Nakagami in the year 1993, but they reconciled and were again living together by 1997

Teruko Nakagami Billy Dee Williams

Billy Dee Williams was born William December Williams Jr. on April 6, 1937, an American actor. Billy appeared as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise, first in the early 1980s for The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as well as Return of the Jedi (1983), and thirty-six years later in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), marking one of the longest intervals between onscreen portrayals of a character by the same actor in American movie history.

Billy was born in New York City and raised with his twin sister Loretta in Harlem. In the year 1945, Billy made his Broadway theatre debut at age seven in The Firebrand of Florence.

Billy later graduated from The High School of Music & Art, then won a painting scholarship to the National Academy of Fine Arts as well as Design, where he won a Hallgarten Prize for painting in the mid-1950s.

Teruko Nakagami Net Worth

Teruko has an estimated net worth of $1 million – $5 million. While her husband Billy Dee Williams has a net worth of $9 million.

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