Mao Inoue
| Mao Inoue 井上 真央 |
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|---|---|
| Born |
January 9, 1987 Yokohama, Japan |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Agent | Seventh Avenue |
| Website | mao-inoue |
Mao Inoue (井上 真央 Inoue Mao?) (born January 9, 1987) 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 (今井 茜 Imai Akane?) in Kids War (キッズ・ウォー Kid's War?) and as Makino Tsukushi in the popular Hana Yori Dango series.
Inoue Mao started her career as an actress at five years old. She has been in many dramas since then. The viewers took notice of her in the series Kids War which ran from 1999 to 2003. In 2005, Mao took the lead role in the drama adaptation of the popular manga Hana Yori Dango, with Arashi member Matsumoto Jun, Shun Oguri, Shota Matsuda and Tsuyoshi Abe. Mao was awarded Best Actress by Television Drama Academy in the same year that the drama was aired.
In 2006, she co-starred in her first film: Check It Out, Yo! with Hayato Ichihara, Yūta Hiraoka, and Tasuku Emoto. The film was in theaters April 22, 2006.
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