Anna Tsuchiya
| Anna Tsuchiya | |
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| Native name | 土屋 アンナ |
| Born |
January 26, 1984 Tokyo, Japan |
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| Spouse(s) |
Joshua (m. 2004; div. 2006) Kikuchi Yamato (m. 2009; div. 2016) |
| Relatives | Angela Tsuchiya Kenneth Tsuchiya |
| Musical career | |
| Origin | Tokyo, Japan |
| Genres | |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1998-Present |
| Labels | Mad Pray |
| Associated acts | |
| Website | anna-t |
Anna Tsuchiya (土屋 アンナ Tsuchiya Anna?, born March 11, 1984) is a Japanese-American singer, actress, and semi-retired model of Polish descent. Since 2005, she is primarily known as a singer.
Tsuchiya was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and an American father (the surname of her father is Heider). In her earliest years, she spoke English and Japanese. Tsuchiya's parents divorced when she was seven. She has an older sister, Angela.
Tsuchiya's modeling career began at the age of fourteen after her older sister Angela, a former fashion model, suggested it. She entered her sister's former agency, and was picked up by an agent who specialized in magazine-modeling, and her first jobs consisted of modeling for an open collection in Kobe and for Japanese Seventeen in 1998. Demand for her grew, and by 2002, she was doing television ads for Uniqlo and Edwin.
Tsuchiya spent her mid-teens modeling, and made friends, notably Yoshika, and soon she began to stay at their apartments. It has been reported that she also began smoking and drinking around this time.
Her best known role in acting was as "Ichigo Shirayuri" - a rural-delinquent biker-gang girl turned fashion model - in the 2004 movie Kamikaze Girls. Ichigo as a model was portrayed as one with tendencies for violent behavior and delinquency. This Blue Ribbon Award-winning role, quite different from one in the original work written by author and designer Nobara Takemoto, was loosely based on Tsuchiya's actual story which she later revealed after the movie's release.
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