Yumi Sugimoto

Yumi Sugimoto, born 1 April 1989 in Osaka, works across a set of overlapping jobs that Japanese entertainment treats as one continuous career: fashion model, gravure model, tarento, actress. She stands 168 cm and is signed to the agency Face Planning. To an outside reader that list can look like a lack of focus. It isn't. In Japan, that combination is a recognised professional path, and the hard part is not entering it but staying in it. The window where youth alone sustains this kind of career is shorter than people assume, and the performers who are still booking work a decade in have usually done something less visible than glamour to earn it. I will be honest that her public profile is thin on the details that make for confident commentary. There is no long awards list here, no headline scandal doing the work of a biography. What there is instead is durability: an Osaka native who went to Tokyo and has kept a place there. That is quieter than most stories, and harder than most.

Name (English)

Yumi Sugimoto

Name (Japanese)

杉本有美

Reading

すぎもと ゆみ

Born

April 1, 1989 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

Origin

Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

168 cm

Occupation

actor / fashion model / tarento / model / gravure model

• Official sitehttps://www.sugimotoyumi.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sugimotoyumi_official/
• Xhttps://x.com/Yumi_SGMT_4biz
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumi%20Sugimoto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%89%E6%9C%AC%E6%9C%89%E7%BE%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1189314

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• 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.