Selected Credits:
Manon Lescaut - Caton - New National Theater Tokyo
Beware - Japanese Influencer - The Wanted Mind
KICHIGAI - Kaori (Lead) - Rebecca Culverhouse
HAPPY CLIENTS
“Mayu was a pleasure to work with! She was very professional and extremely prompt in her communication.
She supplied an exceptional read of a lot of copy, and the client was truly impressed with her work.
I look forward to working with her again!”
- Libby Clearfield, Coupe Studios
Inspired by a Broadway musical
Starlight Express, Mayu’s first passion was dance that she took up at 3 years old, and she won a junior jazz dance group competition at the age of 8. But her father’s job as photography items dealer brought her to modeling, which turns out to be her professional job later in her life.
Growing up with exotic looks and westernized family education in a conservative Japanese society, she had difficulty fitting in communities and spent most of her youth searching for her identity. She worked different jobs, binged movies and studied a lot about other cultures, through which she formed an interest in acting.
She began her entertainment journey
in college, and learned Method and theatrical acting while working as a model. Since 2006 Mayu participated in projects on various media such as film, TV, theater and radio, always willing to broaden her horizon by learning.
She has worked with clients from the UK, the US, Brazil, Russia as well as Japan as an actor, and lent her voice to over a hundred international projects in Japanese and English. After working at a tech firm and as a translator/bilingual host, Mayu came back to performing and started working as a remote voice actor as well. She was selected as one of the top 50 voice over artists on 50Pros in 2023.
A supermodel-turned wasted
party animal, actress at her prime in a life-and-death situation, desperate mom whose son was kidnapped and went missing for 19 years, eccentric football maniac and brilliant business woman, ice-cold controlling investor, damaged prostitute in the 19th century - these are some of the characters Mayu has brought to life. She tends to portray somewhat out-of-the-box and bad-ass figures, leaders of many sorts, and those with dramatic fate or dark personality.
After living in Poland from 2021 to 2023, currently she’s based in Shizuoka, Japan.
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