Miho Nakayama

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Nakayama Miho (Nakayama Miho, 中山美穂, born 1 March 1970) is an actress, model, and a former J-pop idol singer.

She was born in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan, the older sister of another J-pop singer, Shinobu Nakayama. She made her J-pop debut on 21 June 1985. She also starred in a Famicom Disk System dating sim titled Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School, in which she is a high school student trying to mask her true identity.

In 1995 director Shunji Iwai cast Miho in the starring dual roles of Hiroko Watanabe and Itsuki Fujii in the film Love Letter. The film was a huge box-office success and Miho won a number of awards including Best Actress at both the Blue Ribbon Awards and the Yokohama Film Festival.

She was nominated for a Japanese Academy Award in 1998 for Tokyo biyori and has appeared in a number of TV series including Love Story (2001).

[edit] External links

• Miho Nakayama at the Internet Movie Database
• Nakayama Miho Official Site (in Japanese)
• 中山美穂 (Nakayama Miho) (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-03-15.
• TV Stars - Nakayama Miho (English). Japan-Zone. Retrieved on 2007-03-15.