Yūta Hiraoka

Yuta Hiraoka got the kind of start most actors only dream about: the 2004 film Swing Girls, followed by the Newcomer of the Year award at the 28th Japan Academy Prize. A coming-of-age hit and a prize before he turned twenty-one. I have seen that exact opening ruin plenty of careers, because being discovered in a youth film often means being filed under youth permanently, and the offers thin out the moment the actor stops looking young. Hiraoka avoided that. Born in Hiroshima in 1984 and represented by Amuse, he has kept working steadily, mostly in television, for more than twenty years since. He is not a headline generator. He is the sort who shows up where he is called and quietly stacks up credits. Sustaining a career for two decades is far harder than landing one breakout, and less celebrated too.

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Name (English)

Yūta Hiraoka

Name (Japanese)

平岡祐太

Reading

ひらおか ゆうた

Born

September 1, 1984 (age 42)

Origin

Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Height

178 cm

Occupation

actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rat

Blood type

O

Agency

Amuse

Active years

2003 -

Spouse

Non-celebrity woman (2022 -)

Works summary

Appearances

245 (2003–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

2003: 1, 2004: 4, 2005: 14, 2006: 12, 2007: 10, 2008: 10, 2009: 15, 2010: 16, 2011: 18, 2012: 18, 2013: 14, 2014: 10, 2015: 11, 2016: 6, 2017: 7, 2018: 14, 2019: 9, 2020: 5, 2021: 3, 2022: 13, 2023: 5, 2024: 6, 2025: 4, 2026: 2, year unknown: 18

Debut work

ライオン先生

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://www.hiraokayuta.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yuta_hiraoka0901/
• Xhttps://x.com/Hiraoka_Staff
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABta%20Hiraoka
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E5%B2%A1%E7%A5%90%E5%A4%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1190315

Tags

• Hiroshima Prefecture
• actor
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.