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.

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Name (English)

Mai Fukagawa

Name (Japanese)

深川麻衣

Reading

ふかがわ まい

Born

March 29, 1991 (age 35)

Origin

Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

162 cm

Occupation

fashion model / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

Blood type

O

Agency

Ten Carat

Active years

2010 -

Works summary

Appearances

96 (2010–2027)

By year (titles with a known year)

2010: 4, 2012: 1, 2013: 2, 2014: 2, 2015: 4, 2016: 1, 2017: 4, 2018: 5, 2019: 8, 2020: 6, 2021: 11, 2022: 13, 2023: 4, 2024: 8, 2025: 7, 2026: 8, 2027: 1, year unknown: 7

Debut work

FASHION meets 7COLORS

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/fukagawamai.official/
• Xhttps://x.com/fukagawa_staff
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai%20Fukagawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B7%B1%E5%B7%9D%E9%BA%BB%E8%A1%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11560035

Tags

• Shizuoka Prefecture
• fashion model
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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