Mari Yoshimura

I want to be honest about the limits of what I know here. The record I have on Mari Yoshimura is thin: born in Tokyo on 3 April 1935, and active as a fashion model, actor and television personality. That is genuinely most of it, and I would rather say so than invent a filmography. Still, the birth year alone gives the sparse facts some weight. To be a woman working as a fashion model in postwar Japan, and then to move across into acting and television, meant entering professions that were still being invented. There was no established route, no template for what such a career looked like or how long it could last. Somebody had to go first and find out. Without confirmed credits in front of me I won't claim which programs defined her. What I can say is that anyone who came up through Japanese modeling and broadcasting starting from that generation experienced the medium's earliest years from the inside, and that is not a small thing.

Name (English)

Mari Yoshimura

Name (Japanese)

芳村真理

Reading

よしむら まり

Born

April 3, 1935 (age 91)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

160 cm

Occupation

actor / fashion model / tarento

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%B3%E6%9D%91%E7%9C%9F%E7%90%86
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11615804

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• fashion model
• tarento

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.