Nakayama Miho

Other Name: 中山美穂

Age: 54

Birthday: March 1, 1970

Nationality: Japanese

Gender: Female

Nakayama Miho is an actress, model, and a former Japanese pop idol singer. She was born in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan, the older sister of another pop singer, Shinobu Nakayama. She made her debut on 21 June 1985. She also starred in a Famicom Disk System dating sim titled Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School, in which she is a high school student trying to mask her true identity. In 1995, director Shunji Iwai cast Miho in the starring dual roles of Hiroko Watanabe and Itsuki Fujii in the film Love Letter. The film was a huge box-office success and Miho won a number of awards including Best Actress at the 38th Blue Ribbon Awards, the 17th Yokohama Film Festival and the 18th Hochi Film Award. She was nominated for a Japanese Academy Award in 1998 for Tokyo biyori and has appeared in a number of TV series including Love Story (2001). She was married to Hitonari Tsuji in 2002 after an eight-month relationship and they both moved to Paris before she gave birth to their son a year later. They divorced in 2014, and she moved back to Japan, with Tsuji retaining custody of their son (Source: Wikipedia).