Best Japanese Actress Over 30 (24 people)

1. Ayase Haruka

Japanese

698 points by 7 voters

Ayase Haruka is a popular Japanese actress, model and singer. Her immediate family consists of her father, mother and one brother. As a youth, Haruka was active in sports, playing basketball in ...more

2. Horikita Maki

Japanese

484 points by 5 voters

Horikita Maki is a former Japanese actress. She debuted in 2003 and has starred in numerous Japanese television dramas, television and magazine advertisements, and movies. Horikita's popular roles include the introverted high ...more

3. Matsu Takako

Japanese

393 points by 4 voters

Matsu Takako, born June 10, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese stage and screen actress and pop singer/songwriter. She was born into a traditional Buyo house, and her Buyo name is ...more

4. Koike Eiko

Japanese

385 points by 4 voters

Koike Eiko, born November 20, 1980 in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese idol. Outside of Japan, her best-known work is the film 2LDK. She has worked as a ringside commentator and ...more

5. Shibasaki Ko

Japanese

384 points by 4 voters

Shibasaki Ko is a Japanese actress and singer who started her career at the age of 14 when she was discovered by a star agent. She became known for her performance in ...more

6. Ishihara Satomi

Japanese

297 points by 3 voters

Ishihara Satomi is a Japanese actress managed by HoriPro talent agency. She began her career at the age of 17 in 2003 by starring in different supporting roles both for TV and ...more

7. Aoi Yu

Japanese

294 points by 3 voters

Aoi Yu is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film All About Lily Chou-Chou. She subsequently portrayed Tetsuko Arisugawa in Hana ...more

8. Kimura Fumino

Japanese

275 points by 3 voters

Kimura Fumino is a Japanese actress. She was previously married to an acting instructor. The two divorced in 2019. On March 12, 2023, it was announced that she would be getting married ...more

9. Inoue Mao

Japanese

195 points by 2 voters

Mao Inoue is a Japanese actress. She debuted as a U-15 idol in 1999. She is best known to Japanese television drama audiences as Akane Imai in Kids War and as Makino ...more

10. Toda Erika

Japanese

192 points by 2 voters

Toda Erika is a Japanese actress born in Nada-Ku, Kobe City, Hyogo prefecture. Toda began her performing arts activities in the fifth grade of elementary school and debuted as a gravure model ...more

11. Tabe Mikako

Japanese

189 points by 2 voters

Tabe Mikako is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. Starting acting in her teens with a role in the Sailor Moon musicals, she has developed into a lead actress in film and television, ...more

12. Ono Machiko

Japanese

186 points by 2 voters

Ono Machiko is an actor born in a rural area of Nara Prefecture, Japan. Ono was first spotted by the film director Naomi Kawase cleaning out the shoeboxes at her junior high ...more

13. Mitsushima Hikari

Japanese

185 points by 2 voters

Mitsushima Hikari is a Japanese actress, singer and model, born in Okinawa, Japan. She debuted as a singer and as an actress in 1997 in the movie "Mothra 2: The Undersea Battle". ...more

14. Nagasawa Masami

Japanese

185 points by 2 voters

Nagasawa Masami, born in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. She is also known as "Ma-chan" or, as Yamashita Tomohisa calls her, "Maa-tan". On her radio show, she introduces herself ...more

15. Sawajiri Erika

Japanese

182 points by 2 voters

Sawajiri Erika is a Japanese actress who is also active as a model and singer. She was born to a Japanese father and an Algerian born-French mother. She became one of Fuji ...more

16. Matsushima Nanako

Japanese

178 points by 2 voters

Matsushima Nanako, born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese actress and model. She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. She was also the main character ...more

17. Matsuyuki Yasuko

Japanese

175 points by 2 voters

Yasuko Matsuyuki (松雪泰子, born in Saga Prefecture) is a Japanese actress and singer signed to Stardust Promotion.
In 1989, while she was in high school, Matsuyuki entered the Men's ...more

18. Takeuchi Yuko

Japanese

172 points by 2 voters

Takeuchi Yuko, born in Saitama, Saitama, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She made her big break with NHK's television series Asuka and JT Green's commercial. She had gone on to star in ...more

19. Kitagawa Keiko

Japanese

170 points by 2 voters

Kitagawa Keiko, born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress and former model. She grew up in Kobe and lost many friends in the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. As a ...more

20. Maki Yoko

Japanese

98 points by 1 voters

Maki Yoko, born in Inzai, Chiba, is a Japanese actress who made her film debut at the age of 19 in the 2001 film "Drug". Her film career sprung when receiving a ...more

21. Ichikawa Mikako

Japanese

97 points by 1 voters

Ichikawa Mikako is a Japanese fashion model and actress born in Tokyo. She belongs to Suurkiitos. She became an exclusive model for the Japanese fashion magazine "Olive" in 1994. She left the ...more

22. Aragaki Yui

Japanese

85 points by 1 voters

Aragaki Yui is a Japanese idol, model, actress, singer, seiyuu and occasional radio show host of Ryukyuan ancestry. She is particularly recognized for her pleasant face and her movie projects. Aragaki's career ...more

23. Yoshitaka Yuriko

Japanese

84 points by 1 voters

Yoshitaka Yuriko, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese actress who is represented by the Japanese agency Amuse. Yoshitaka made her acting debut in 2006. She was given the lead role in the ...more

24. Fukada Kyoko

Japanese

81 points by 1 voters

Fukada Kyoko is a Japanese singer and actor. In Japan, her name is sometimes contracted to the nickname Fukakyon. She won the award for Best Actress at the Yokohama Film Festival for ...more