My favorite actress.

UENO Juri (Japanese Actress)

Well, it’s time to introduce all of you to my favorite actress of all time.

UENO Juri-chan!!

Haha! Not a very promising picture, ne? >_<

That’s Juri-chan in her role Nodame in “Nodame Cantabile”. This gal is really an amazing, versatile actress. Mostly, her roles are challenging ones like Nodame. Nodame is quirky, messy and disorganized, takes baths several days apart and loves to eat, sometimes stealing her friend’s lunchbox when it is filled with delicacies (description from Wikipedia. Hehe.). Her Ruka in “Last Friends”. The boyishly charming Ruka was a classmate of Michiru's in junior high school. She has performed brilliantly as a motocross racer and aims to win the national championship, but as the story progresses, a deep worry that she can neither confide in her parents or close friends grows evident (description from DramaWiki. Lolz).

If you want to watch something Juri-chan did, I recommend this two. Nodame Cantabile first before Last Friends. ^__^

Even though I don’t personally know Juri-chan, I can feel that she’s a kind, nice, sincere and down-to-earth person. For me, she’s also the type who is serious and loves her work. By watching her off (behind-the-scenes and stuff when not filming) camera, I can see this traits. She’s also a tomboyish gal. She’s sometimes serious and very playful (from games and variety shows she’s in that I watched). She’s also talented in the saxophone because she had to learn it for her movie “Swing Girls”, and a little piano. At first, she didn’t really strike me as beautiful. Just cute. But as time passes by, you will really appreciate her simple beauty and think she’s much better than all those celebrities with a pretty face with not much talent.

Juri-chan really has all my respect. She’s also the first celebrity I got obsessed with. Haha! I mean, literally, obsessed! >_<

A picture of almost all her roles (pic from her LJ community group).

Juri-chan in a timeline

A more recent photo.

Beautiful, ne? :3

^__^