Yu Takahashi

Biography

Yu Takahashi (高橋 ユウ, Takahashi Yū; born January 19, 1991), is a Japanese actress and model.

== Early life == Takahashi was born in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, on January 19, 1991, to a Filipina mother and a Japanese father. She is the younger sister of Maryjun Takahashi, who is also a model and actress. And her younger brother is a professional football player, Yuji Takahashi. She won the Grand Prix in a female vocal audition in 2006 held by the TV Tokyo show Output.

== Career ==

=== Modelling career === Takahashi is represented by the Asia Promotion talent agency. She started her career as an exclusive model for the Cawaii! magazine and her first photo book, Yu, was released 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, Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World. 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 == In October 2018, Takahashi married K-1 fighter Hirotaka Urabe. On January 28, 2020, she announced that had given birth to her first child, a son. On June 28, 2022, she announced that she was pregnant with her second child, and had given birth to her second son on December 2 of the same year.

== Appearances ==

=== Films === Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World (2008), Yuri Asō Brand Guardians (2012) Stolen Identity 2 (2020)