Yu Takahashi (actress)


Yu Takahashi is a Japanese actress and model represented by the Asia Promotion talent agency.

Early life

Takahashi was born in Ōtsu, Shiga to a Filipino mother and a Japanese father. She won the Grand Prix in a female vocal audition in 2006 held by the TV Tokyo show Output.

Career

Modelling career

She started her career as an exclusive model for the Cawaii! magazine and released her first photo book, Yu, in 2008. After that, she was an exclusive model for the Pinky magazine until 2009.

Acting career

She appeared regularly in the NHK Educational TV television program Kyō Kara Eikaiwa in 2007. As an actress, she played Yuri Aso in TV Asahi's Kamen Rider Kiva and starred in the 2008 film version, . She played a leading role in the 2012 film, Brand Guardians, with South Korean actor Yoon Shi-yoon. In 2013, she played the role of Makoto/Sailor Jupiter in a musical remake of Sailor Moon: La Reconquista and in 2014 in musical Sailor Moon: Petite Étrangère.

Personal life

She is the younger sister of Maryjun Takahashi, who is also a model and actress. She also has a brother who is a professional football player named Yuji Takahashi.
In October 2018, she married K-1 fighter Hirotaka Urabe.
On 22 September 2019, she announced that she was pregnant, and had given birth to a baby boy on 28 January 2020..

Appearances

Films