Inoue Mao
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Profile
- Name: 井上真央 / Inoue Mao
- Profession: Actress
- Date of Birth: 09 January 1987
- Birthplace: Yokohama, Kanagawa
- Height: 158cm
- Star Sign: Capricorn
- Blood Type: O
- Marital Status: Single
- Talent Agency:Seventh Avenue
- Three Sizes: B79, W59, H80
Trivia
- Started her acting career at the age of 5
- Is currently in her 1st year at Meiji University's Faculty of Literature
- Is majoring in theatre
- Is taking Chinese as her second language elective at university
- Is in the same talent agency as Matsushima Nanako, with whom she has acted in several dramas, including the recent Hotaru no Haka and Hana Yori Dango
- Looks ups to veteran actress, Otake Shinobu
- Has recently acquired her license, and would like to one day be able to drive larger vehicles
- Wears contacts
- Loves ice-cream and fermented beans (natto)
- Considers herself a "health freak"; pays close attention to healthy diets and healthy living
- Actors she has worked with all praise her immense work ethic and hark work
- Was popular playing a tough girl in the afternoon drama series, "Kid's War"
- Got her real break and garnered national attention playing the role of Makino Tsukushi, a poor but determined, vivacious young girl in Hana Yori Dango
- Will make her first movie apperance in the spring of 2006, in the movie "Chekeraccho" (a play-on word combining Okinawan dialect with the phrase, "Check it out yo"), in which she plays a girl with seemingly unrequited romantic feelings for her childhood friend, played by Ichihara Hayato, who becomes involved in a rap band with his friends in Okinawa
Dramas
- Hotaru no Haka (2005)
- Hana Yori Dango (2005)
- Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji 3 (2005)
- Home Drama (2004)
Awards
47th Television Acadamy Awards: Best Actress