Juri Ueno

Juri Ueno

actress, soundtrack

Juri Ueno was born on May 25, 1986 in Japan. Juri Ueno's big-screen debut came with The Stars Converge directed by Kiyoshi Sasabe in 2003. Juri Ueno is known for The State of Union directed by Shun'ichi Hirano, Shingo Katori stars as 10 episodes, 2016 and Juri Ueno as 10 episodes, 2016. Juri Ueno has got 3 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Juri Ueno achieved is Awards of the Japanese Academy. The upcoming new tvshow Juri Ueno plays is He's Expecting - Season 1 which will be released on Apr 21, 2022.

The boyish Ueno Juri was born in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. Her mother died while Juri was at junior high school. She was athletic at elementary school and also had piano lessons. She began wearing contact lenses at junior high school. She applied to become a model for a fashion magazine, but failed in the year 2000. The agent, however, kept her on. This agency was called Will and later would become part of Amuse. She did commercial work for P&G in 2001. She began acting in the year 2000, but came to the public's attention five years later when she appeared in the popular Swing Girls movie. She had thought about becoming a singer, but had taken her mother's advice to try acting earlier. Her role garnered her the Newcomer Of The Year prize at the Japanese Academy Awards. She actually can play the saxophone and had had lessons since childhood. She was further popular a year later when she was cast and appeared in the TV serial version of the Nodame Cantabile manga series, which was based on the relationship of novice Classical musicians. Her role won the Best Lead Actress price at the 51st Television Drama Academy. The serial was a major commercial success, which naturally meant the role would be reprised several times. These were not her last awards. The press chimed in with Vogue Japan naming her one of its females of the year for 2008. Another monetary success was 2013's Girl In A Sunny Place, which was also based on a novel. She acted in a South Korean film in 2015. Ueno married Triceratops musicians Wada Sho on 26.05.2016. They had been dating for nine months. Her older sister is singer and adult model Ueno Mana. Her oldest sister is a DJ called Saori. She is managed by the Amuse Agency and does corporate advertising for things like construction companies. She likes music, cooking (prefers fish) and playing the saxophone.

  • Birthday

    May 25, 1986
  • Place of Birth

    Kakogawa, Japan
  • Also known

    上野 樹里, 우에노 주리

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Awards

3 wins & 1 nominations

Awards of the Japanese Academy
2005
Suwingu gâruzu (2004)
Winner - Newcomer of the Year
Mainichi Film Concours
2005
Chirusoku no natsu (2003)
Winner - Sponichi Grand Prize New Talent Award
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