is a Japanese actress, TV personality, and fashion model. She is known for her roles as Kaede Kayano in ''

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'', Chiyomi Horikiri in the 2015 television drama ''

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'', and Mizuki Kurata in the 2018 film adaptation of the manga series '' After the Rain'', among others.

Biography

Yamamoto was born in 1997 in

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, Japan, and made her entertainment debut as the 14th Mitsui ReHouse Girl in 2011. Her first acting role came in 2011 in the

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series ''Soredemo, Ikite Yuku''. At the age of 15 she moved to Tokyo to attend private high school while pursuing an acting career. In 2015 she played the role of Kaede Kayano in ''

'', the film adaptation of

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's manga. That same year she played the lead role of Chiyomi Horikiri, a young dancer and writer who shrinks in size, in the 2015

adaptation of the

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manga ''

''. Yamamoto was an exclusive model for '' nicola'' as a teenager. Her first photobook was published by

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in March 2018.

Filmography

Films

Television dramas

Dubbing

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'', The Prince (

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)

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