Aya Ueto
Date of Birth: Saturday, September 14, 1985
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Height: 5' 3"
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Aya Ueto was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ueto received her first break in August 1997 when she won the Special Jury Prize at the 7th All-Japan Bishoujo Contest. After this initial success, she tried her hand at both acting and singing, appearing in various minor TV drama roles, as well as a low budget action movie, and formed a short-lived pop quartet, "Z-1", with other winners of the Bishoujo Contest.
She portrayed a high school student with Gender Identity Disorder in "3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi sensei 6" (2001) which endeared her to the Japanese nation.
In August 2002, she released her first single, "Pureness".
In 2003, cult movie director Ryuhei Kitamura casted her in Azumi.
With the film's release date coinciding with the sale of her debut album "AYAUETO" in the spring of 2003, Aya Ueto was set for super-stardom. Her famous smile has since earned her increasing numbers of commercial contracts and magazine covers combined with starring roles in a number of popular television dramas have meant she is rarely out of the limelight and has cemented her position as one of Japan's top entertainers.
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