Mai Sato

Mai Sato is one of those performers who took a road almost nobody takes — born in Tokyo in 1979, she built a career not at home but in Taiwan, racking up more than two thousand TV appearances across Asia. She studied at Tamagawa University, which tells me she took the slow, deliberate road rather than the child-star shortcut, and honestly that kind of foundation tends to show up in the work. At 155 cm she's compact, but screen presence has never been about height — it's about what you carry into a room, and from the little that does surface publicly, she carries something. Calling herself a bridge across Asia and then stepping away on her own terms after marrying in 2014 feels genuinely grounded. Respect.

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Mai Sato is a Japanese television personality born on November 13, 1979, in Tokyo, who built her career in Taiwan. She attended Tamagawa University, where she pursued her education alongside her acting career. Based in Taiwan, she appeared in more than 2,000 television programs across Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and China, was appointed to promotional roles by Taiwanese government agencies, and stepped back from entertainment after marrying a businessman in 2014. Her social media presence includes accounts on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Mai Sato

Name (Japanese)

佐藤麻衣

Reading

さとう まい

Born

November 13, 1979 (age 46)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

155 cm

Occupation

Actress

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Goat

Blood type

O

Measurements

80 / 56 / 81 / c

University

Tamagawa University

Debut

2000

Works summary

Appearances

127

By year (titles with a known year)

2000: 1, 2001: 1, 2002: 1, 2005: 1, 2006: 8, 2008: 1, 2010: 10, 2011: 5, 2012: 1, 2013: 2, 2014: 1, 2024: 1, year unknown: 94

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mai_sato_1113/
• Xhttps://x.com/happymaiworld
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E8%97%A4%E9%BA%BB%E8%A1%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9035125

Tags

• Tokyo
• Actress

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.