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Maki Horikita (堀北 真希, Horikita Maki) (born October 6, 1988) is a Japanese actress and endorser. She debuted in 2003 as a U-15 idol and has since starred in Japanese television dramas, television and magazine advertisements, and movies.

Maki Horikita
堀北 真希
File:HorikitaMaki-61stBerlinFilmFestival.jpg
Horikita at the 61st Berlin Film Festival
OccupationActress
Years active2003–present
Websitehttp://www.horikita-collection.com/top.php


Biography

Childhood

Marina Hara (real name) was borned on the sixth of October 1988 in Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan,CMJ initial clue name.>> white birth mark on her neck,small mole on her left finger tips. Horikita is the eldest of three girls in her family. She was boyish during her childhood life. For instance, she enjoyed playing basketball and baseball with her friends and preferred playing Dragon Ball Z with the boys rather than playing dolls with the girls in middle school.she like's to explore. favorite color: green.piers(rosa kato, and david ortega).most likely she like to have adventurous life.maki is a music lover can play different kinds of instruments. violin,guitar,etc, talented child as she grows.

Despite her boyishness, Horikita looked up her mother. This was revealed when she appeared on KAT-TUN's variety show, Cartoon KAT-TUN, where she mentioned that she liked imitating her mother when she was at the young age.maki change her status living in with different way with disguise mask. the kaifly names that she is using. news break in,she has been somewhere in Asia. gone through surgeries to hide her true identification by exchanging life to a dead girl. And continuing her life by her own way.where is the true maki go.

Education

In junior high school, Horikita served as the vice-president of her school's student council and the vice-captain of the basketball club. In class, she was dubbed "The Boss of 3-C” in recognition of her status as the class representative. As she became more active in the entertainment industry, she had to put her club and council activities on hold. Being unable to meet her many commitments, she finally withdrew from her school activities, concentrating solely on completing her high school education and her budding career in show business.[1]

Movies and Television

 
Maki Horikita, 2007. She is popularly known as Nobuta Kotani from Nobuta wo Produce and as Mizuki Ashiya from Hana Kimi.

Horikita had appeared in several drama series and movies since 2003, but it was her roles in Densha Otoko and Nobuta wo Produce that opened more doors of opportunity for her. Her promising portrayal of the titular character in Nobuta wo Produce won her a Best Supporting Actress award from Japan's Television Academy Awards. It was also around this time that she won the Newcomer Award from Japan Academy Awards for her role as a student apprentice in Always: Sunset on Third Street.

In the following year, she won her second Best Supporting Actress award from the same award-giving body for her role in Kurosagi. Months later, she was given the lead role for Teppan Shoujo Akane and the role of a bully who is behind a class rebellion in the drama series Seito Shokun! where she co-starred with her agency senior Rina Uchiyama. She was also cast in the horror movie, One Missed Call: Final, the last installment of the One Missed Call franchise with agency colleague and best friend Meisa Kuroki and South Korean actor Jang Geun-suk.

Soon after, Horikita achieved her first Best Actress award for her role as Mizuki Ashiya in the Japanese drama adaptation of the gender-bender manga Hana-Kimi, or Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. In the same year that she filmed for Hana Kimi, Horikita also starred in the Taiga drama Atsuhime with Aoi Miyazaki. Simultaneously, she played the lead character who has multiple personality disorder in the suspense movie Tokyo Shōnen and reprised her role as a student apprentice in Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi, the sequel to her breakthrough movie. Horikita's exceptional work was recognized by Vogue Nippon, citing her as one of the eleven Women of the Year for 2007.[2]

On October of the following year, she was once again seen on television opposite Yuzu's lead vocalist Yujin Kitagawa, leading the cast of Fuji TV's golden time slot in the drama Innocent Love.[3] Towards the end of the year, she had been cast as Naomi, the female protagonist of Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shite or DareKiss (based on Gabrielle Zevin's popular novel, "Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac") a Hollywood-Japan collaboration film directed by internationally acclaimed director and self-confessed Japanese culture fanatic, Hans Canosa. (2007).[4]

As soon as the filming for DareKiss ended, Horikita had gone on to appear in two television dramas, Atashinchi no Danshi in 2009 as an adoptive mother of six young men (played by Jun Kaname and Mukai Osamu among others) and Tokujo Kabachi!! in 2010 as an administrative scrivener opposite Arashi's Sho Sakurai.

Come January 2011, Horikita starred in the movie adaptation of Byakuyakou, a widely read novel that was adapted into a television drama in 2006 starring Haruka Ayase and Takayuki Yamada. Produced by WOWOW FILMS, the movie is currently being screened at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama category.[5]

Radio

Horikita was one of the six young female hosts of the radio show, GIRLS LOCKS!, a sub-portion of the Japanese radio program, SCHOOL OF LOCKS! from radio network tfm. She usually calls her listeners in response to their letters and gives them book recommendations. Her stint was at ten in the evening, every third or fourth week of the month. Other hosts of this radio show include Yui Aragaki, Chiaki Kuriyama, Nana Eikura and Kii Kitano.[6] She graduated from the program on May 2009.

Voice acting

Horikita had also ventured the world of voice acting, debuting as an anime seiyu for one of the characters in Nobita and the Green Giant Legend 2008.[7] Her most prominent voice acting stint was when she provided the voice for Luke, a character from the video game series, Professor Layton series.[8]

Early 2009, she had also dubbed a character from the Belgian 3D animated movie Nat's Space Adventure 3D/Fly Me to the Moon. She provided the Japanese voice of the protagonist, a young male fly who was determined to explore outer space.[9] She has also voiced over Shawnee Smith's character, Meg Penny, in the Japanese dubbed release of The Blob.

Other Works

TV Specials

  • Advanance of Peach (2003)
  • Fall in Love on Sunday (2003)
  • 68FILMS Tokyo Girls (2004)
  • Her Sin (2004)
  • Ghost Legend (2005)
  • Kogoro VS Kintachi (2005)
  • Nobuta wo Produce (2005)
  • Broken-winged Angels - "Chat Room" (2006)
  • Eru Boboraccha ga Yuku (2006)
  • Terrible Room 6 (2006)
  • Densha Otoko DELUXE (2006)
  • Deru Toko Demasho! (2007)
  • Love Stories - "Strong Woman" (2007)
  • Tokyo Ambush (2008)
  • Hanazakari no Kimitachi e SP - Graduate & 7½ (2008)
  • Pretty Woman Wearing Suits (2008) - Guest
  • Chance! ~Her Reason To Win~ (2009)

Endorsements

PV appearances

Photobooks

Games

Selected list of recognitions

See also

References

  1. ^ 2008年のCMキング・女王はアノ人たち (in Japanese), 2008-12-24.
  2. ^ Vogue names Women of the Year - Tokyograph
  3. ^ 堀北真希　不幸な生い立ち負けずに純愛 (in Japanese), 2008-08-20.
  4. ^ よし来た！！堀北真希ハリウッド進出！共演に松ケン、英語セリフも挑戦 Tokyograph, 2008-11-30.
  5. ^ [1] Tokyograph, 2011-01-13
  6. ^ http://www.tfm.co.jp/lock/girls
  7. ^ Horikita to make anime seiyu debut in "Doraemon" movie - Tokyograph
  8. ^ "のび太君がタイプです！"王女"堀北真希がアニメ声優初挑戦" (in Japanese). Sankei Shinbun. Archived from the original on 2008-01-28. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
  9. ^ 堀北真希がハエ役に初挑戦 ３Ｄアニメ映画で吹き替え (in Japanese), 2009-01-19

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