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Yū Aoi

1985 - Today

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Yu Aoi (蒼井 優, Aoi Yū; born August 17, 1985) 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 and Alice (2004), also directed by Iwai, Kimiko Tanigawa in the hula dancing film Hula Girls and Hagumi Hanamoto in the 2006 live-action adaptation of the Honey and Clover manga series. She has won numerous awards for her performances on screen, including the Japan Academy Prize and Kinema Junpo Awards for best supporting actress in 2007 for Hula Girls and Rookie of the Year for continued performances in the field of Films in Media and Fine Arts by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2009. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2024). Yū Aoi is the 7,695th most popular actor (up from 8,312th in 2024), the 1,997th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,837th in 2019) and the 150th most popular Japanese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Yū Aoi ranks 7,695 out of 13,578. Before her are Govinda, Jodi Benson, Ed Flanders, Kim Sun-a, Don Stark, and Betty Thomas. After her are Margaret Livingston, Summer Phoenix, Ambika, Lucas Black, Zoltán Várkonyi, and Yui Horie.

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Among people born in 1985, Yū Aoi ranks 216. Before her are Hasan Minhaj, Ciprian Marica, Dwight Howard, Kenta Suzuki, Shingo Shibata, and Tirunesh Dibaba. After her are Antonio Nocerino, Dulce María, Thiago Neves, Cris Cyborg, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Stéphane Séjourné.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yū Aoi ranks 1,997 out of 6,245. Before her are Toshihiro Nagoshi (1965), Koichi Yokozeki (1979), Shingo Shibata (1985), Ken Matsumoto (1987), Takanohana Kōji (1972), and Nobutoshi Kaneda (1958). After her are Akemi Noda (1969), Daichi Hakkaku (1992), Yoshiharu Horii (1953), Yui Horie (1976), Kyohei Suzaki (1989), and Hideki Matsui (1974).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Yū Aoi ranks 150. Before her are Kumiko Okae (1956), Takashi Sorimachi (1973), Maaya Sakamoto (1980), Rie Kugimiya (1979), Tatsuya Fujiwara (1982), and Mari Iijima (1963). After her are Yui Horie (1976), Noriko Sakai (1971), Haruma Miura (1990), Masakazu Morita (1972), Noriaki Sugiyama (1974), and Hidetoshi Nishijima (1971).

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