, known by her

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, is a Japanese actress and model. She studied at

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, where she majored in English.

History

Personal life

She married actor

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, who is exactly 11 years her senior, on February 16, 2008, the birthday the couple share. She gave birth to two sons in both February 2011 and April 2014. The youngest son died a year later due to an

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. Kashii's maternal grandfather is a

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newspaper reporter, and thus her ethnic background is ¼ European. Kashii spent her childhood in

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and attended elementary school there. She has been said to have exactly the same dimensions for her right and left side of the face which led to a German doctor wanting to use her face as a specimen for research uses.

Biography

Kashii got her start in the entertainment business as an in-house model for the Japanese teen

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''mc Sister'' in 2001. Her first acting role was in the movie adaptation of '' Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean'' in which she played the title character.

Filmography

Movies

Dramas and television

Video games

References

External links

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HORIPRO Official site: 香椎由宇
(In Japanese) * Wikipedia:ja:香椎由宇, Japanese Wikipedia {{DEFAULTSORT:Kashii, Yuu Japanese female models Living people 1987 births Actresses from Kanagawa Prefecture Japanese people of American descent Models from Kanagawa Prefecture People from Ayase, Kanagawa Japanese film actresses Japanese stage actresses Japanese television actresses 21st-century Japanese actresses