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Name: Inoue Mao

Birthdate: 1987-Jan-09

Birthplace: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Height: 158cm

Weight: 41kg

Blood Type: O

Star sign: Capricorn

Mao Inoue was a popular U-15 idol from 1999; she was well known for her role as "Imai Akane" in the drama Kids War. Before that, she had had parts in several other dramas from the age of five, but it wasn't until the debut of Kids War in 1999 that Japanese audiences took notice of Inoue. In 2005, she was cast as the star of Hana Yori Dango on TBS. Inoue played Makino Tsukushi in the live-action adaptation of the manga and anime, a lower middle-class girl who is trying to survive unnoticed in an elite high school full of playboys and rich snobs. A sequel to the 2005 drama, Hana Yori Dango 2, was aired in the winter 2007 season.

TV Shows

Ousama no Shinzou ~King Lear Yori~ (NTV, 2007)

Hana Yori Dango 2 (TBS, 2007)

Hotaru no Haka (NTV, 2005)

Hana Yori Dango (TBS, 2005)

Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji 3 (Fuji TV, 2005)

Home Drama (TBS, 2004)

Kin no tamago (TBS, 1997)

Gakkou ga abunai (TBS, 1992)