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.

Name (English)

Yūta Hiraoka

Name (Japanese)

平岡祐太

Born

September 1, 1984 (age 41)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rat

Origin

Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Height

178 cm

Occupation

actor / television actor

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.hiraokayuta.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yuta_hiraoka0901/
• Xhttps://x.com/Hiraoka_Staff
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E5%B2%A1%E7%A5%90%E5%A4%AA

Tags

• Hiroshima Prefecture
• actor
• television actor

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.