Favourite JDrama Actress

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7Adi20 Jun 7, 2022
55 People Loves 15 Voters Report
  • Ishihara Satomi

    1. Ishihara Satomi

    Japanese
    587 points by 6 voters
    Ishihara Satomi is a Japanese actress managed by HoriPro talent agency. She began her career at the age of 17 in 2003 by starring in different supporting roles both for TV and ...more
  • Kawaguchi Haruna

    2. Kawaguchi Haruna

    Japanese
    579 points by 6 voters
    Kawaguchi Haruna is a Japanese actor and model born in Goto, Japan. She began modeling in the mid-2000s, appearing in the youth fashion magazine "Nicola". She then went on to make her ...more
  • Ayase Haruka

    3. Ayase Haruka

    Japanese
    488 points by 5 voters
    Ayase Haruka is a popular Japanese actress, model and singer. Her immediate family consists of her father, mother and one brother. As a youth, Haruka was active in sports, playing basketball in ...more
  • Aragaki Yui

    4. Aragaki Yui

    Japanese
    396 points by 4 voters
    Aragaki Yui is a Japanese idol, model, actress, singer, seiyuu and occasional radio show host of Ryukyuan ancestry. She is particularly recognized for her pleasant face and her movie projects. Aragaki's career ...more
  • Tsuchiya Tao

    5. Tsuchiya Tao

    Japanese
    385 points by 4 voters
    Tsuchiya Tao is a Japanese actress, model, and dancer. Her older sister, Honoka, works as a model, while her younger brother, Shimba, is also an actor and voice actor. Chosen from among ...more
  • Arimura Kasumi

    6. Arimura Kasumi

    Japanese
    295 points by 3 voters
    Arimura Kasumi, born in Itami City, Hyogo Prefecture, is a Japanese actress represented by FLaMme. In December 2009, while attending Hyogo Prefectural Itami Nishi High School, she auditioned for FLaMme and passed. ...more
  • Takeuchi Yuko

    7. Takeuchi Yuko

    Japanese
    286 points by 3 voters
    Takeuchi Yuko, born in Saitama, Saitama, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She made her big break with NHK's television series Asuka and JT Green's commercial. She had gone on to star in ...more
  • Nakama Yukie

    8. Nakama Yukie

    Japanese
    285 points by 3 voters
    Nakama Yukie is a Japanese actress, singer and former idol. She was born in Okinawa, Japan, in a fisherman's family, the youngest of five siblings. At the start of her career, she ...more
  • Mitsushima Hikari

    9. Mitsushima Hikari

    Japanese
    248 points by 3 voters
    Mitsushima Hikari is a Japanese actress, singer and model, born in Okinawa, Japan. She debuted as a singer and as an actress in 1997 in the movie "Mothra 2: The Undersea Battle". ...more
  • Komatsu Nana

    10. Komatsu Nana

    Japanese
    246 points by 3 voters
    Tokyo native Komatsu Nana began her career starring in a short film, called Tadaima, before immediately graduating to movies like Close Range Love and The World Of Kanako. Prior to these, however, ...more
  • Toda Erika

    11. Toda Erika

    Japanese
    191 points by 2 voters
    Toda Erika is a Japanese actress born in Nada-Ku, Kobe City, Hyogo prefecture. Toda began her performing arts activities in the fifth grade of elementary school and debuted as a gravure model ...more
  • Aoi Yu

    12. Aoi Yu

    Japanese
    189 points by 2 voters
    Aoi Yu is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film All About Lily Chou-Chou. She subsequently portrayed Tetsuko Arisugawa in Hana ...more
  • Takei Emi

    13. Takei Emi

    Japanese
    188 points by 2 voters
    Takei was born in Nagoya. Aspiring to become a model, she declared to her parents on her entry to junior high school that she would become a model within three years. In ...more
  • Ueno Juri

    14. Ueno Juri

    Japanese
    186 points by 2 voters
    Juri Ueno, born in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, is a popular Japanese actress. Juri's family consists of her parents and two older sisters. As a child, Juri Ueno excelled at track and ...more
  • Kitagawa Keiko

    15. Kitagawa Keiko

    Japanese
    186 points by 2 voters
    Kitagawa Keiko, born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress and former model. She grew up in Kobe and lost many friends in the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. As a ...more
  • Hashimoto Ai

    16. Hashimoto Ai

    Japanese
    183 points by 2 voters
    Hashimoto Ai is a Japanese actress and fashion model. Hashimoto made her debut after winning the grand prize in the HUAHUA Audition in 2008. She appeared in "Confessions" and starred in "The ...more
  • Nanao

    17. Nanao

    Japanese
    182 points by 2 voters
    Nanao is a Japanese model and actress who is affiliated with Platinum Production. Her real name is Nanao Arai. Nanao started entertainment activities in 2009 when she was 20 years old, she ...more
  • Gouriki Ayame

    18. Gouriki Ayame

    Japanese
    182 points by 2 voters
    Ayame Goriki is a Japanese actress, singer and model from Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. She was represented by the talent agency Oscar Promotion until 2020. Ayame Goriki liked to stand out when ...more
  • Nagano Mei

    19. Nagano Mei

    Japanese
    182 points by 2 voters
    Mei Nagano is a Japanese actress. She is known for playing Rinko in the film My Love Story! (2015) as well as Yosano Suzume in the film Daytime Shooting Star (2017). In ...more
  • Fukada Kyoko

    20. Fukada Kyoko

    Japanese
    171 points by 2 voters
    Fukada Kyoko is a Japanese singer and actor. In Japan, her name is sometimes contracted to the nickname Fukakyon. She won the award for Best Actress at the Yokohama Film Festival for ...more
  • Nikaido Fumi

    21. Nikaido Fumi

    Japanese
    169 points by 2 voters
    Nikaido Fumi is an actress and fashion model born in Naha-shi, Okinawa. She got off to an early start in show business at age 13, appearing in her first TV drama, Juken ...more
  • Mizukawa Asami

    22. Mizukawa Asami

    Japanese
    169 points by 2 voters
    Mizukawa Asami is a Japanese actress. She grew up in Ibaraki, Osaka. She made her debut in 1997 at the age of thirteen in an advertisement for Asahi Kasei's "Hebel Haus". In ...more
  • Yahagi Honoka

    23. Yahagi Honoka

    Japanese
    167 points by 2 voters
    Honoka Yahagi is a Japanese teen fashion model and actress from Chiba Prefecture. She is currently represented by Ken-On. She previously worked under the stage name Honoka Miki. Yahagi was first scouted ...more
  • Kimura Yoshino

    24. Kimura Yoshino

    Japanese
    166 points by 2 voters
    Born in London and raised in Tokyo. She was sent to camp in Maine when she was 13 and now speaks fluent English. She was a Takarazuka fan which inpsired her dream ...more
  • Yonekura Ryoko

    25. Yonekura Ryoko

    Japanese
    166 points by 2 voters
    Yonekura Ryoko is a Japanese actress and ex-fashion model. She studied classical ballet for 15 years from the age of five. A member of the Oscar Productions agency, she won a national ...more
  • Kaho

    26. Kaho

    Japanese
    162 points by 2 voters
    Kaho, born in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actress and fashion model. She was first discovered in Harajuku (Omotesando) when she was still in 5th grade. She made her debut in 2003 ...more
  • Sawajiri Erika

    27. Sawajiri Erika

    Japanese
    159 points by 2 voters
    Sawajiri Erika is a Japanese actress who is also active as a model and singer. She was born to a Japanese father and an Algerian born-French mother. She became one of Fuji ...more
  • Non

    28. Non

    Japanese
    156 points by 2 voters
    Nounen Rena is a Japanese actress and fashion model from Kamikawa, Hyogo Prefecture. She is best known for her lead roles on the NHK drama series Amachan (2013). She debuted as a ...more
  • Inoue Mao

    29. Inoue Mao

    Japanese
    156 points by 2 voters
    Mao Inoue is a Japanese actress. She debuted as a U-15 idol in 1999. She is best known to Japanese television drama audiences as Akane Imai in Kids War and as Makino ...more
  • Naka Riisa

    30. Naka Riisa

    Japanese
    151 points by 2 voters
    Naka Riisa is a Japanese actress. She has a Swedish grandfather, making her one-quarter Swedish and three-quarters Japanese. She was named Riisa after Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting for which her ...more
  • Kuroki Haru

    31. Kuroki Haru

    Japanese
    147 points by 2 voters
    Kuroki Haru is a Japanese actress from Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture, who is known as a very talented Japanese actress who can portray a wide range of roles. She graduated from Kyoto ...more
  • Horikita Maki

    32. Horikita Maki

    Japanese
    147 points by 2 voters
    Horikita Maki is a former Japanese actress. She debuted in 2003 and has starred in numerous Japanese television dramas, television and magazine advertisements, and movies. Horikita's popular roles include the introverted high ...more
  • Shimada Yoko

    33. Shimada Yoko

    Japanese
    100 points by 1 voters
    Shimada Yoko was a Japanese actress. She was best known to Western audiences for her portrayal of Mariko in the 1980 miniseries Shogun. She was the only female member of Shogun's massive ...more
  • Honda Tsubasa

    34. Honda Tsubasa

    Japanese
    84 points by 1 voters
    Honda Tsubasa is a Japanese actress and model under Stardust Promotion, a Japanese talent agency. In mid-2006, Honda was scouted by seven different people on the same day, which became the reason ...more
  • Kiritani Mirei

    35. Kiritani Mirei

    Japanese
    82 points by 1 voters
    Kiritani Mirei, born Matsuoka Sayasa, is a Japanese actress, model, and news anchor. She appeared in the film Kimi ni Todoke, Usagi Drop, and Arakawa Under the Bridge. She also appeared in ...more
  • Uchida Yuki

    36. Uchida Yuki

    Japanese
    78 points by 1 voters
    Uchida Yuki is a Japanese actress, and a popular 1990s Japanese idol, model and singer. She practiced fencing in high school and ranked 3rd in a tournament in Tokyo in 1991. She ...more
  • Kuroshima Yuina

    37. Kuroshima Yuina

    Japanese
    77 points by 1 voters
    Yuina Kuroshima, born in Okinawa, Japan, is an actor, model, and entertainer. She is currently in a relationship with Miyazawa Hio, with whom she's expecting her first child. (Source: MyDramaList)
  • Ueto Aya

    38. Ueto Aya

    Japanese
    75 points by 1 voters
    Born in Tokyo, Japan, Aya Ueto received her first break in August 1997, when, at the age of 11, she won the Special Jury Prize at the 7th All-Japan Bishoujo Contest. After ...more
  • Kuriyama Chiaki

    39. Kuriyama Chiaki

    Japanese
    74 points by 1 voters
    Kuriyama Chiaki is a Japanese actress, talent, model, and singer from Tsuchiura City, Ibaraki Prefecture. She graduated from Japan High School of Music. Her agency was Space Craft until 2020 when she ...more
  • Yamaguchi Sayaka

    40. Yamaguchi Sayaka

    Japanese
    73 points by 1 voters
    Yamaguchi Sayaka is a Japanese actress born in Fukuoka, Japan.
  • Kagurazaka Megumi

    41. Kagurazaka Megumi

    Japanese
    70 points by 1 voters
    Kagurazaka Megumi is a Japanese actress and former gravure idol from Okayama prefecture. She belongs to the moon rock. She is the president of the film production company Zion Productions. She won ...more
  • Seino Nana

    42. Seino Nana

    Japanese
    69 points by 1 voters
    Saino Nana was born in Inazawa City, Aichi Prefecture on October 14, 1994. She is a Japanese model and actress. Since she was young, she decided she wanted to work in either ...more
  • Nao

    43. Nao

    Japanese
    68 points by 1 voters
    Nao, previously known with her stage name Honda Nao, is a Japanese actress from Fukuoka. She is currently signed under the talent agency Irving Co., Ltd. (Source: Wikipedia, MyDramaList)
  • Amami Yuki

    44. Amami Yuki

    Japanese
    66 points by 1 voters
    Amami Yuki, born Nakano Yuri, in Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese stage and screen actress. Amami joined the drama club in junior high school and the second year, she was ...more
  • Shibasaki Ko

    45. Shibasaki Ko

    Japanese
    63 points by 1 voters
    Shibasaki Ko is a Japanese actress and singer who started her career at the age of 14 when she was discovered by a star agent. She became known for her performance in ...more
  • Nagasawa Masami

    46. Nagasawa Masami

    Japanese
    62 points by 1 voters
    Nagasawa Masami, born in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. She is also known as "Ma-chan" or, as Yamashita Tomohisa calls her, "Maa-tan". On her radio show, she introduces herself ...more
  • Kuroki Meisa

    47. Kuroki Meisa

    Japanese
    61 points by 1 voters
    Kuroki Meisa, born as Shimabukuro Satsuki, is an actress, model, and singer represented by the agency Sweet Power and signed to Sony Music Japan. Kuroki is Okinawan and one-quarter Brazilian. She made ...more
  • Araki Yuko

    48. Araki Yuko

    Japanese
    60 points by 1 voters
    Araki Yuko is a Japanese actress and fashion model represented by Stardust Promotion. She was born on December 15, 1993, in Tokyo. She is a member of Happy Science, a Japanese new ...more
  • Suzuki Yuka

    49. Suzuki Yuka

    Japanese
    59 points by 1 voters
    Suzuki Yuuka is a is a non-no exclusive model and actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She is affiliated with PLATINUM PRODUCTION (プラチナムプロダクション). (Source: MyDramaList)
  • Matsushima Nanako

    50. Matsushima Nanako

    Japanese
    58 points by 1 voters
    Matsushima Nanako, born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese actress and model. She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. She was also the main character ...more
  • Watanabe Anne

    51. Watanabe Anne

    Japanese
    55 points by 1 voters
    Watanabe Anne is a Japanese fashion model and actress. In her modelling work, she is known by the mononym Anne. She is the daughter of film actor Watanabe Ken. Her brother, Watanabe ...more
  • Kichise Michiko

    52. Kichise Michiko

    Japanese
    54 points by 1 voters
    Kichise Michiko is a Japanese fashion model and actress. She was born in Fukuoka. She is currently represented by FLaMme talent office. She reported on her blog that she got married on ...more
  • Kimura Fumino

    53. Kimura Fumino

    Japanese
    53 points by 1 voters
    Kimura Fumino is a Japanese actress. She was previously married to an acting instructor. The two divorced in 2019. On March 12, 2023, it was announced that she would be getting married ...more
  • Miyazaki Aoi

    54. Miyazaki Aoi

    Japanese
    49 points by 1 voters
    Miyazaki Aoi is a Japanese actress. She is considered one of Japan's most beautiful women. She is best known for roles such as in "Nana" and "Virgin Snow". Her brother Miyazaki Masaru ...more
  • Maeda Atsuko

    55. Maeda Atsuko

    Japanese
    48 points by 1 voters
    Maeda Atsuko is a former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. She was in Team A and was one of the most prominent members in the group, being voted number one ...more

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