Friday, September 5, 2008

Nana Eikura - Star on the rise !!!


Nana Eiruka was discovered as a model in her second year of junior high school while she was in Shibuya. She was made an exclusive model of Seventeen immediately after becoming part of the entertainment world.

When Nana was in junior high, she had also been part of the theater group there. In 2004, she started acting professionally, co-starring next to more popular actors like Itoh Misaki, Matsumoto Jun, Nagasawa Masami and Yamashita Tomohisa. In fact, after co-starring with Nagasawa and Yamashita in Proposal Daisakusen, she received the Best Supporting Actress award from Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix awards. More recently, in August 2007, she was the leading actress in a movie called AWA Dance.


Nana Eikura 榮倉奈々is a pretty 20 year Japanese model and actress from Kagoshima prefecture. Nana was scouted as a model in her second year of junior high school while she was in Shibuya and has been an exclusive model for Japanese fashion magazine Seventeen. In 2004, she started a acting career acting which has seen her in 7 TV dramas and 4 movies.

Last year after starring in TV drama Proposal Daisakusen, she received the Best Supporting Actress award from Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix awards. This year she has appeared in NHK’s Asadora NHK朝の連続テレビ小説 Hitomi. Like actress Yui Ichikawa 市川由衣 , she is also a spokes model for the Japanese Red Cross Nana has also released 2 photobooks and DVDs and has been a DJ for radio station Tokyo FM.