Kiko Mizuhara

Audrie Kiko Daniel (born October 15, 1990), known professionally as Kiko Mizuhara (水原 希子), is an American-born Japanese model, actress, singer and designer who has lived in Japan since childhood.

Kiko Mizuhara started her modeling career at the age of twelve when she entered an audition contest for Seventeen magazine in which readers selected their favorite new face for the magazine.

Later, she signed as a model under ViVi and MAQUIA magazine.

In 2002, Mizuhara participated in a contest and won an audition for fashion magazine Seventeen.

At the audition, she was picked as Miss Seventeen and became an exclusive model for Seventeen for the next 3 years.

At age 16, she moved to Tokyo alone, living separately from her mother and sister in Kobe to advance her career in modeling.

In July 2007, Kiko Mizuhara became an exclusive model for fashion magazine ViVi.

Starting 2008 Kiko Mizuhara has been a regular runway model at the Tokyo Girls Collection.

Mizuhara made her acting debut in 2010 in Norwegian Wood and has appeared in many Japanese dramas and films.

Mizuhara co-starred in Tran Anh Hung's Norwegian Wood (2010) with Kenichi Matsuyama and Rinko Kikuchi.

In 2011 and 2013, respectively, she was featured as a singer in Towa Tei's "The Burning Plain" and in M-Flo's "No Way" track from their Neven album.

Mizuhara has collaborated with Opening Ceremony, and singers Rihanna and Beyoncé have worn her designs for the brand.

In 2012, Mizuhara was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel's The Little Black Jacket campaign.

She played a supporting role in Mika Ninagawa's Helter Skelter (2012), which is based on the award-winning manga of the same name by Kyoko Okazaki.

She has also played a supporting role in Toshiaki Toyoda's I'm Flash! (2012), and co-starred in Keishi Otomo's Platinum Data with Kazunari Ninomiya.

In December 2013, Mizuhara participated in the Chanel Metiers d'Art Show in Dallas, Texas.

Mizuhara started her collaboration with Opening Ceremony during Spring 2013 in celebration of the Opening Ceremony flagship store in Japan.

In 2014, Mizuhara was listed among the Business of Fashion 500: The People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry.

Mizuhara was born Audrie Kiko Daniel in Dallas, Texas, United States.

She is the oldest of the two daughters of Song Pal-choong (better known by her Japanese alias Yae Toyama, née Mizuhara), a Zainichi Korean from Nagasaki, Japan, and Todd Mason Daniel, an American from Texas.

She has a sister named Ashley Yuka Daniel who is 4 years younger than her who also works in the modeling industry under the name Yuka Mizuhara.

Mizuhara moved to Tokyo at age 2 and then to Kobe, Japan, at age 3 with her family.

When she was 13 years old, her parents divorced and her father moved back to the United States.

Her international runway debut was at The Paris Collections in Olympia Le Tan's Spring/Summer 2014 Show.

In the same year, Mizuhara was invited by British Fashion Designer Nasir Mazhar to walk for his S/S 2014 Collection at London Fashion Week and at Fashion Designer Jeremy Scott debut show for Moschino in Milan Fashion Week.

Mizuhara was chosen to open and close the Fall/Winter 2014 Show of Sretsis, a Thai-brand clothing line, during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Tokyo.

She has also participated in Nicola Formichetti's first full collection show for Diesel in Venice, Italy.

In addition to her films, Mizuhara played as a witch doctor in Trick The Movie: Last Stage (2014) where she spoke Bahasa as the movie was filmed in Kuching, Malaysia.

In 2014, she starred in the drama Shitsuren Chocolatier.

In 2015, Mizuhara portrayed Mikasa Ackerman in the live action adaptation of Attack on Titan.

In 2021, Mizuhara co-starred in the film Aristocrats, adapted from the novel Ano Ko wa Kizoku by Mariko Yamauchi.

Mizuhara has made her first small screen appearance in Japanese television series Yae no Sakura.

She was part of the main cast of the Japanese drama Kokoro ga Pokitto ne (Crazy For Me) in 2015.

In 2017, Kiko Mizuhara walked for Alexander Wang (designer) S/S 2018 Ready-to-Wear collection at New York Fashion Week.

Aside from her runway experiences, Mizuhara has graced numerous magazine covers and features not only in Japan but also in Asia and Europe.

She has appeared in major Vogue editorials for Vogue Japan, Vogue China, Vogue Taiwan, Vogue Italia, American Vogue, Vogue Girl Japan and L'Uomo Vogue.

She has done covers and spreads for Nylon, Numero, Vivi, Seventeen, Grazia, GQ, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel, Maquia Gisele, V Magazine, Another Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Cosmopolitan, Dedicate Magazine, and Jalouse Magazine. Mizuhara has also shot ad campaigns for Diesel, Phillip Lim, Vivienne Tam, Reebok, Kitsuné, Tiffany & Co., Shiseido, etc. She was appointed as a Chanel ambassador.

Mizuhara starred in the Marc Jacobs Eyewear 2017 ad campaign.

In 2018, she was appointed as the first Asian ambassador for Dior.

She was also welcomed into the Coach family in the same year.