Riyo Mori

Riyo Mori is, to me, one of the more distinctive Miss Universe winners. Crowned in Mexico City in 2007, she was never just a pageant queen. Her background as a ballet dancer is written all over her bearing, the elongated lines, the controlled grace that you simply cannot fake. At 173 cm she carries her height like a stage, moving as if every step were choreographed. For me, 2007 still feels like a proud milestone, the year a Japanese woman stood at the very top.

Name (English)

Riyo Mori

Name (Japanese)

森理世

Reading

もり りよ

Born

December 24, 1986 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Tiger

Origin

Aoi-ku, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

173 cm

Occupation

model / ballet dancer / tarento / beauty pageant contestant

Awards & achievements

• 2007 Miss Universe
• 2007 Miss Universe Japan

• Official sitehttps://riyo-mori.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/riyomori_/
• Xhttps://x.com/MoriRiyo
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyo%20Mori
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E7%90%86%E4%B8%96
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242578

Tags

• Shizuoka Prefecture
• model
• ballet dancer
• tarento

Last updated

2026-06-23

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.