Mao

The name alone stops you — Mao, written with the characters for "true" and "fish," which is the kind of name that feels less like a label and more like a piece of quiet poetry. Born in 1991 in Toyohashi, Aichi, she's at that sweet spot in an actor's life where the early hustle has settled into something steadier and more intentional. At 162cm she's not towering, but there's something about that eye-level presence that makes you feel like you're actually in the scene with her rather than watching from a distance. She grew up in a children's home in Toyohashi and worked full-time at a vintage clothing shop in Tokyo before acting, and that road honestly makes me more curious about the work. Whatever she's been building in the years before the spotlight fully finds her, I get the feeling it's going to land hard when it does.

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Mao (born August 5, 1991) is a Japanese actress from Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture. Standing 162 cm tall, she was born under the sign of Leo in the Year of the Sheep. Raised in a children's home in Toyohashi, she moved to Tokyo after high school, was formerly with Vivit and Watanabe Entertainment, now works freelance, and appeared in One Cut of the Dead (2018).

Name (English)

Mao

Name (Japanese)

真魚

Reading

まお

Born

August 5, 1991 (age 35)

Origin

Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Height

162 cm

Occupation

Actress

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

Agency

Freelance

Active years

2017 -

Works summary

Appearances

58 (2016–2025)

By year (titles with a known year)

2016: 1, 2017: 2, 2018: 18, 2019: 13, 2020: 7, 2021: 6, 2022: 2, 2023: 1, 2024: 1, 2025: 2, year unknown: 5

Debut work

Ultraman Orb

Filmography / notable works

• Xhttps://x.com/n_o_f_i_s_h
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9C%9F%E9%AD%9A%20(%E5%A5%B3%E5%84%AA)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56150446

Tags

• From Aichi Prefecture
• Actress

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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