Yu Takahashi (高橋 ユウ, Takahashi Yū; born January 19, 1991), is a Japanese actress and model.
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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)
TV dramas
Kamen Rider Kiva (TV Asahi, 2008–2009), Yuri Asō
Shinigami-kun Episode 6 (TV Asahi, 2014), Sayaka Kirino
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi!: Best Seller Sakka Kara no Chōsenjō (TBS, 2014), Mutsumi Sakashita
Kageriyuku Natsu (WOWOW, 2015), Sachiko Haruki
Mondai no Aru Restaurant Episode 2 (Fuji TV, 2015)
Kamen Rider Zi-O (TV Asahi, 2019), Sougo Tokiwa's true first love, "Ms. Sailor"
Stage
Pu-Pu-Juice Pani☆Hosu (August 2013)
Sailor Moon musicals (AiiA Theater Tokyo, 13 September 2013 - 2015), Sailor Jupiter
Sonezaki Shinjū (September 2013)
WBB Vol.6 Soshite, Konya mo Nikolaschka! (June 2014)
Events
Kansai Collection (2014 S/S, 2014 A/W, 2015 S/S)
Tokyo Girls Collection (2011 A/W, 2012 A/W)
Girls Award (2010 S/S, 2010 A/W, 2011 A/W, 2012 A/W)