Tao Tsuchiya

Tao Tsuchiya (土屋太鳳) is a Japanese actress, model, dancer, lyricist and singer.

She is best known for her memorable role of Makimachi Misao in the movie series Rurouni Kenshin, as Mai Nakahara in The 8-Year Engagement, Koharu in The Cinderella Addiction and most recently as Yuzuha Usagi in Netflix's Alice in Borderland.

Her older sister, Honoka, works as a model, while her younger brother, Shimba Tsuchiya, is also an actor.

Chosen from among 2,020 women auditioning for the part, Tsuchiya was cast in the starring role of Mare, a morning drama serial aired on Japan's public television which first aired on March 30, 2015.

In 2018, Tsuchiya performed in a theatre production in five cities within four countries around the world.

The production was an adaptation from the manga Pluto.

She played two main characters: a little cyborg girl named Uran and a cyborg woman named Helena.

She planned to participate in another Stage Play challenge in Tokyo during the summer of 2020, joining a Madam Mari Natsuki production called Neo Vol. 4.

On January 1, 2023, Tsuchiya announced on her Instagram that she had married Generations from Exile Tribe Singer & Actor Ryota Katayose, who played her non-blood-relation brother-turned-boyfriend in the 2017 Japanese movie, My Brother Loves Me Too Much.

At the same time, she also announced her pregnancy with her first child.

On August 29, 2023, Tsuchiya and Katayose announced the birth of their first child.