Yumi Wakatsuki

There is not much in this file yet, and I would rather say so plainly than pad it out. No award list, no signature role, no tidy career arc. What I do have is a birth date, 27 June 1994, a hometown in Fuji, Shizuoka, and an occupation field that reads: actor, illustrator. That second word is the one I keep returning to. Yumi Wakatsuki came up through the idol system as a member of Nogizaka46 and moved into acting after leaving the group, which by now is a well-worn route. What is not well-worn is carrying a genuine second craft alongside the first. Illustration is not a hobby you list to seem interesting; it is a discipline with its own standards, and here it sits in the occupation field as part of what she actually does. I think that matters more than it looks. Performing careers are decided by other people: casting directors, producers, schedules, the mood of an industry that changes its mind every few years. Drawing is not. A performer who can also make something alone, at a desk, without anyone's permission, has a floor underneath her that most of her peers simply do not have. It changes what she can afford to turn down. She is in her early thirties, the stretch in this line of work where roles either deepen or dry up, and I have no idea which way it will go for her. I am not going to pretend otherwise. But if I were betting, I would take the person with two trades over the person with one. The blank fields in this entry are not an ending. They are just unwritten.

Name (English)

Yumi Wakatsuki

Name (Japanese)

若月佑美

Born

June 27, 1994 (age 32)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dog

Origin

Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

157 cm

Occupation

actor / illustrator

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%A5%E6%9C%88%E4%BD%91%E7%BE%8E

Tags

• Shizuoka Prefecture
• actor
• illustrator

Last updated

2026-07-27

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.