Maki Mizuno

Maki Mizuno (水野 真紀, Mizuno Maki; real name Yuki Gotoda (後藤田 由紀, Gotōda Yuki), born as Yuki Enowaki (江野脇 由紀, Enowaki Yuki) on 28 March 1970) is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in jidaigeki and contemporary dramas. She has also appeared in the 2004 Godzilla movie Godzilla: Final Wars.

Born in Tokyo . After attending the Junior and Senior High School attached to the Faculty of Education at the University of Tokyo , she graduated from Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin Junior College in 1990. After transferring to the University of the Sacred Heart , she graduated from the Department of Education , Faculty of Contemporary Liberal Arts , at the University of the Sacred Heart in 2021. She also studied abroad at Le Cordon Bleu London for a short period and graduated from Hattori Nutrition College . She holds a kindergarten teacher's license, a childcare worker qualification, and a chef's license .

In 1987, while in her second year of high school, she won the judges' special award at the 2nd Toho Cinderella Contest. She was feeling down after being treated coldly by a boy she liked at the time, when her older sister found the contest's application information in the newspaper . She impulsively applied. In 1990, she made her entertainment debut in the NHK morning drama series Rinrinto . While attending junior college in 1989, she played the heroine in the film Winter Story . The following year, in 1990, she graduated from junior college and in 1992 played the heroine in the morning drama series Papakko-chan (Yomiuri TV).

She is known for being the first "Beautiful Older Sister "character in a commercial for Matsushita Electric Works (now Panasonic Electric Works ), and was chosen as the top actress among potential brides in 1996, the year she appeared in the commercial .

She also has her own TV show, "Maki Mizuno's Magical Restaurant" (MBS) , which has been airing since 2001. She said that it was only after she started hosting the show that she tried okonomiyaki ( a flour-based dish) for the first time. She has also appeared in a commercial for Osaka Gas , so although she is originally from Tokyo, she has a connection to the Kansai region.

In March 2004, she married her friend from university, Gotoda, and gave birth to her first son at Aiiku Hospital in April 2005 .

In June 2023, she was appointed as an outside director of JP Holdings , which operates nursery schools . [ 8 ]

• Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), Anna Otonashi^[1]
• The Setting Sun (2022)^[2]
• Even If This Love Disappears From the World Tonight (2022)^[3]

• Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1998), Tami^[4]
• The Great White Tower (2003), Michiyo Satomi^[5]

• Mizuno Maki at IMDb
• Profile at JMDb (in Japanese)