Mariya Nagao

Mariya Nagao, born 10 March 1994 in Yokohama, is a Japanese television personality and model who came up through AKB48 before building a career outside it. She works across fashion modelling, gravure, acting and TV, and is represented by Irving. The part of her story I find genuinely interesting is the part after the group. AKB48 has cycled through hundreds of members, and graduating from it is less a promotion than a cliff edge; the overwhelming majority quietly disappear within a couple of years because the brand, not the individual, was doing the work. Continuing to book modelling, screen and television jobs under your own name alone is a different and much harder test, and Nagao has passed it long enough that it can no longer be luck. Our record here lists no awards and no timeline, which says more about how the industry documents women in this lane than about what she has done. Longevity without a group behind you is the achievement.

Name (English)

Mariya Nagao

Name (Japanese)

永尾まりや

Reading

ながお まりや

Born

March 10, 1994 (age 32)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

Origin

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

158 cm

Occupation

actor / model / Japanese idol / fashion model / gravure model

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mariyagi_san/
• Xhttps://x.com/mariyagiii310
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariya%20Nagao
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B8%E5%B0%BE%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8A%E3%82%84
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q867514

Tags

• Kanagawa Prefecture
• actor
• model
• Japanese idol

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.