Haruma Miura

Haruma Miura (三浦 春馬) was a Japanese actor and singer.

Following the release of Koizora, Miura won Newcomer of the Year for his role in the film at the 31st Japan Academy Film Prize.

Miura later starred in the film Naoko and won the Sponichi Grand Prix Newcomer Award at the 63rd Mainichi Film Awards for his performance.

He made his acting debut in the television drama Agri (1997) and rose to popularity after starring in the film Koizora (2007), winning Newcomer of the Year at the 31st Japan Academy Prize.

The DVD charted at #2 on the Oricon Weekly DVD Chart and sold 14,000 physical copies on its first week of release, making it the best-selling male idol DVD since Private of W-inds in 2002.

Following the closure of Actors Studio, the three signed to Amuse Inc. As Brash Brats went on indefinite hiatus in 2005, Miura continued his acting career.

Early notable television projects that he appeared in include Ima, Ai ni Ikimasu, Unfair, Children, 14-sai no Haha, and Fight.

He also appeared in the films Mori no Gakkō and Akihabara@Deep.

His first starring role was Taiyō Sasaki in the 2006 film Catch a Wave.

In 2007, Miura starred in the film Koizora as Hiro, and he also appeared in the film Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge.

In 2008, he was cast as Ryo Shiraishi in Binbō Danshi, Ren Kazama in the third season of Gokusen, and Fujimaru Takagi in the live-action television drama adaptation of Bloody Monday, as well as a guest appearance in a special episode of Galileo as a younger version of the main character, Manabu Yukawa.

In addition, he appeared in the music video for "Umaku Ienai" by Yuzu.

In October 2008, he released his second photobook, Letters.

By the end of 2008, Miura's rise in popularity led him to rank No. 3 on Oricon's annual list of "18-year-olds expected to be successful" in 2008.

In the following years, Miura notably starred in the third season of Gokusen (2009), Bloody Monday (2009), Naoko (2009), Kimi ni Todoke (2010), Last Cinderella (2013), Boku no Ita Jikan (2013), The Eternal Zero (2013), Attack on Titan (2015), Gintama 2 (2018), and Two Weeks (2019).

Oricon ranked him No. 1 in a list of "most anticipated actors for 2009."

He also ranked No. 1 in a list of "actors of interest" in a survey published by the magazine Ori-Star.

In February 2009, Miura was one of seven recipients who won Newcomer of the Year at the 2009 Elan d'or Awards.

In April 2009, he appeared in the film Crows Zero 2 as Tatsuya Bitō.

In March 2009, he reprised his role in Gokusen: The Movie, which was later released in July 2009.

From June 20, 2009, to July 26, 2009, Miura starred in his first stage production, Hoshi no Daichi ni Furu Namida.

In September 2009, Miura was cast as Kotaro Mochizuki in Samurai Seventeen, which was later renamed Samurai High School; this was his first leading role in an NTV drama.

In January 2010, Miura reprised his role for the second season of Bloody Monday.

His third photobook, Switch, was released on February 5, 2010.

In the same month, Miura released an idol DVD with Takeru Satoh chronicling their trip to New York City, which was titled HT: NY no Chūshin, Nabe no Tsutsuku.

The DVD sold 12,000 physical copies upon release, ranking No. 5 on Oricon's weekly DVD charts.

In April 2010, he was cast as Shōta Kazehaya in the live-action adaptation of Kimi ni Todoke, which was later released on September 25, 2010.

In September 2010, he made his runway debut modeling at the 2010 Kobe Collection Autumn/Winter Show.

Later that year, he was cast in his first getsuku drama, Taisetsu na Koto wa Subete Kimi ga Oshiete Kureta, as Shūji Kashiwagi, which was broadcast in January 2011.

In May 2011, Miura played Kensuke Sanada in the episode "Janken" of television mini-series Yo ni mo Kimyō na Monogatari in during the 2011 spring serialization.

He appeared in the television drama Saigo no Bansan: Keiji Tōno Kazuyuki to 7-nin no Yōgisha as Eiji Miyata in the last 45 seconds of the final episode as a teaser to the television drama Hi wa Mata Noboru, which he starred in.

Hi wa Mata Noboru was later broadcast in July 2011.

In June 2011, Miura starred in the film Tokyo Park.

On November 11, 2011, Miura and Satoh released a second part of their video diary, titled HT: Sekidō no Mashita de, Nabe no Tsutsuku, which was filmed in Malaysia.

In 2012, Miura co-starred in the stage play Kaitō Seven as Wild Upper.

He then played lead in episode 8 of the television mini-series Keigo Higashino Mysteries.

He also starred as Lola in the Japanese production of Kinky Boots (2016), winning Best New Actor and the Haruko Sugimura Award at the 24th Yomiuri Theater Awards.

In addition to his acting career, Miura debuted as a singer in 2019 with the single "Fight for Your Heart", which was followed by "Night Diver" in 2020.

Miura made his acting debut in the television drama adaptation of the novel Agri when he was seven years old.

He was enrolled at the Tsukuba branch of Actors Studio and was concurrently a member of the boy band Brash Brats with two other students.