Native name 高橋 メアリージュン Years active 2004-present Nationality Japanese Name Maryjun Takahashi | Ethnicity Japanese, Filipino Role Model Occupation Model, actress | |
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Born 8 November 1987 (age 36) ( 1987-11-08 ) Shiga Prefecture, Japan Parents Pen Arazas, Yutaka Takahashi Siblings Yu Takahashi, Yuji Takahashi Movies and TV shows Similar People Yu Takahashi, Yuji Takahashi, Tao Tsuchiya, Erina Mano, Elaiza Ikeda Profiles | ||
Maryjun Takahashi (高橋 メアリージュン, Takahashi Mearījun, born November 8, 1987) is a Japanese actress and model. She is of Japanese, Filipino, and Spanish ethnicity. She has appeared in CanCam magazine, and various television commercials.
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Biography
Takahashi was born in Ōtsu, Shiga to a Japanese father and a Filipino mother of Spanish descent. She has a younger sister, Yu Takahashi, who is also a model and actress, and a brother Yuji who is a footballer.
Career
She began modeling in August 2003 after winning the "Yokohama Shonan Audition 2003" beauty contest, and professionally in April 2004 when she signed a contract with CanCam. Since 2007, she has appeared in various television shows such as music shows and variety shows, and various television commercials such as those for fashion brand Cecil McBee, Kyocera, Morinaga, and Google.
She has also been active in the runway scene, appearing in large collections such as Tokyo Girls Collection (2007 S/S, 2009 A/W, 2010 S/S, 2010 in Okinawa, 2010 A/W, 2011 in Nagoya, 2011 S/S, 2011 A/W, 2012 S/S) and Girls Award (2010, 2010 A/W, 2011 A/W, 2012 S/S, 2012 A/W).
She quit exclusive modeling for CanCam in April 2012, and subsequently appeared in magazines such as Classy, Oggi, and Gina.
She has also appeared in the TV drama Jun to Ai with Mokomichi Hayami.
Takahashi played Yumi Komagata in the film Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno, released in 2014.