Mai Fukagawa

Plenty of Japanese idols try to become actors. Few make the move as quietly as Mai Fukagawa did. She joined Nogizaka46 as a first-generation member in 2011, graduated in 2016, and then went in the opposite direction from most graduates: small, restrained parts, credibility built slowly rather than bought with noise. She started out as a fashion model, so she certainly knows how to present herself to a camera, which is exactly why it reads as a choice that she so rarely does. She is 162 cm, from Iwata in Shizuoka, and nothing on paper marks her out. Yet the temperature of a scene changes when she enters it, and I suspect that is temperament more than technique. Subtraction is the hardest thing to sell in an industry that rewards volume, and she has made a career out of it.

Name (English)

Mai Fukagawa

Name (Japanese)

深川麻衣

Born

March 29, 1991 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

Origin

Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

162 cm

Occupation

fashion model / actor

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/fukagawamai.official/
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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B7%B1%E5%B7%9D%E9%BA%BB%E8%A1%A3

Tags

• Shizuoka Prefecture
• fashion model
• actor

Last updated

2026-07-26

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