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Aya Asahina (朝比奈彩, Asahina Aya, born 6 October 1993) is a Japanese model, actress, and YouTuber.
Biography
Asahina was born on 6 October 1993, in Sumoto City, Hyōgo Prefecture. She is the eldest of two siblings, with one younger brother.
Career
After graduating from Hyogo Prefectural Sumoto Technical High School, she worked as a midwife's assistant at a local obstetrics and gynecology clinic for about a year and a half. While working at the clinic, she was approached by an acquaintance who suggested she should work as an event model. And while working there, she was scouted by the talent agency E-Smile and signed with them in 2013. From there, she began working as a race queen under the stage name "Aya Kitagawa (北川 彩)".
In 2014, she moved to Ikushima Planning Office and began working under her real name, Aya Asahina. On October 13, she was selected as the grand prize winner at the DHC Cinderella Awards, and began working as an exclusive model for the January issue of fashion magazine Ray released in November of that year. On November 25 of the same year, she was selected as the 14th Sanai Swimsuit Image Girl.
In November 2015, Asahina was appointed as the "Support Ambassador" for her hometown of Sumoto City, Hyōgo Prefecture.
She made her acting debut in the Amazon original drama Tokyo Alice, which began streaming on 25 August 2017.
In 2019, she began working as an exclusive model for the May issue of the fashion magazine Oggi, which was released in March. In July of the same year, she starred in her first TV drama series, Runway 24 on TV Asahi.
On 6 October 2020, for her 27th birthday, she opened her YouTube channel, "Asahina Channel".
On 13 December 2022, she was appointed as the director for the Awaji Island UNESCO Association.
Personal life
She admires actress Keiko Kitagawa, who is also from Hyōgo Prefecture, hence the surname Kitagawa in her former stagename.
On 26 July 2021, Asahina announced her marriage to Sandaime J Soul Brothers member Kenjiro Yamashita. On 14 December 2023, she revealed that she was expecting the couple's first child. On March 25 of the following year, the couple jointly announced the birth of their first child, a son.
Filmography
= Film
== Television drama
== Web drama
=Bibliography
= Magazine
=Ray (January 2015 issue, Shufunotomosha)
Oggi (May 2019 issue, Shogakukan)
andGIRL (M-ON Entertainment)
References
External links
Official profile at Ikkushima Planning Office (in Japanese)
Profile at Oggi magazine (in Japanese)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Alice in Borderland (seri televisi)
- Yumi Kakazu
- Ayumi Kinoshita
- Yui Hatano
- Teasing Master, Takagi
- Haruhi Suzumiya
- Mangaka
- The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer
- Mamiko Noto
- KiraKira☆PreCure À La Mode the Movie: Crisply! The Memory of Mille-feuille!
- Aya Asahina
- Tanabata no Kuni (TV series)
- List of Japanese films of 2023
- Alice in Borderland (TV series)
- Kenjiro Yamashita
- List of dramatic television series with LGBT characters: 2020s
- Alice in Borderland
- Grand Blue Dreaming
- List of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya episodes
- Ikumi Hisamatsu
