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Name: Yamada Yuko
Profession: Actress, model, and singer
Birthdate: 1984-Jul-05
Birthplace: Onna, Okinawa, Japan
Height: 169cm
Star sign: Cancer
Blood type: O
Profession: Actress, model, and singer
Birthdate: 1984-Jul-05
Birthplace: Onna, Okinawa, Japan
Height: 169cm
Star sign: Cancer
Blood type: O
Yu Yamada is a model, actress, singer and TV presenter. She graduated from Okinawa Actor's School. In 1999, while working as a model for the Japanese fashion magazine CanCam under an exclusive contract, she also worked as a singer in the group "y'z factory" (formed with two other students of the Okinawa Actor's School) and released a total of six singles and one album but in 2002, the group disbanded. Following the group's break up, she has mostly worked as a TV personality and actress. Her first acting gig was in the drama series "Kabachitare!" which led to many other roles such as in "Aisuru tame ni Aisaretai", "Sore wa, Totsuzen, Arashi no youni...". In 2005 she was cast as the leading role of Yukari for the anime Paradise Kiss, adapted from Yazawa Ai's manga of the same title. Yu was also one of the hosts on the variety show Minna no Terebi (Everybody's TV). She can now be seen in the drama "Damens' Walker" which started in October 2006.../http://www.jpopasia.com/profiles/1553/yu-yamada.html
