Kanna Mori
Kanna Mori is a Japanese actress. She is best known as Natsumi Hikari, the female lead in the Kamen Rider Decade television series and films.
She worked under the stage name Kanna Moriya from June 2017 to June 2021.
Profile and career
Although she was born in Toyama, she actually grew up in the Kansai region, having lived in Moriguchi, Osaka from age two until the fifth grade, and in Kyoto from the fifth grade until the second year of junior high school. When she moved to Tokyo due to her father's work, she began modeling for women's fashion magazines at the recommendation of a relative. Later, after gaining an interest in acting through an audition for a commercial, she was introduced to Hirata Office and began her acting career. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Tamagawa High School. After appearing in films such as "Utatama", she began her full-fledged acting career in 2009, playing the heroine Hikari Natsumi in " Kamen Rider Decade ".She won the audition for the role of a female detective partner to the lead actor, Ikki Sawamura, in the drama Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Missing Persons Investigation Unit from among 2,298 other candidates. In June 2017, she moved from Hirata Office to Sony Music Artists and changed her stage name to Kanna Moriya.
On July 1, 2021, after her marriage to Yudai Baba, she also announced that she had left her agency, Sony Music Artists, and had changed her stage name back to her real name, Kanna Mori.
As of January 2024, she is listed as an artist affiliated with GATE, and in July of the same year, she co-starred with Shiho Kato in the MBS / TBS drama series Ayaka Is In Love with Hiroko, marking her first lead role in a television drama.
Personal life
On July 1, 2021, Mori announced her marriage to Japanese basketball player Yudai Baba.Filmography
Television
Kamen Rider Decade - Natsumi HikariSamurai Sentai Shinkenger episode 21 - Natsumi HikariIndigo no Yoru - Tetsu/Momoko KawamuraKeishichō Shissōnin Sōsaka - Megumi MyōjinKasonsuke no Onna Season 10 episode 10 - Nami Asaba The Fugitive: Plan B episode 3 - Kieko's stalkerKeishichō Shissōnin Sōsaka Special - Megumi MyōjinShitsure Hoken episode 6-7 - Yuuki KazukiNazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de episode 8 - Natsuki Miyamoto Beginners! episode 8 - Machiko Kosaka Tōkyō Zenryoku Shōjo - Haruka KuboDinner episode 5 - Minami Natsuno Kodomo Kenshi episode 6-10 - Arisa Arisugawa Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo episode 6-16 - Yuko MatsumotoMeshibana Keiji Tachibana episode 6 - Yoyogi Shomuni 2013 - Misuzu KojimaKeishichou Sousa Ikka 9-Gakari Season 6 episode 9 - Misuzu Akimoto Tokyo Scarlet ~ Keishichou NS Kakari episode 6 - Rin Suzuki Borderline - Akemi HaradaTamagawa Kuyakusho Of The Dead episode 1-3 - Mayu YamashitaDear Sister - Kazuko SatōItazura na Kiss: Love In Tokyo 2 - Yuko Matsumoto Bittare!!! - Eiko SugiyamaNeko Zamurai Season 2 - KikunoKonkatsu Deka - Yayoi KonishiItsuka Tiffany de Chōshoku o - Noriko AkutsuItsuka Tiffany de Chōshoku o Season 2 - Noriko AkutsuOmukae Desu episode 6 - Mari Uehara Rent-a-Rescue episode - Hirako Osaka Kanjousen Part 3 episode 3 - Hatomi Seigi no Se episode 1 - Miori Mukai Kaishi was Gakkou jane-n da yo - Reiko Iryu Sousa 5 episode 4 - Sanami Shikura Cheer Dan - Ichiko Matsui Sousa Kaigi wa Living de! episode 1 - Kanako Sakuragi Chuzai Keiji episode 4 - Risa Tsuyama Kioku Sosa - Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu episode 1-7 - Mori Chinatsu One Page Love - Risa Kawana Radiation House episode 1 - Yumi Kikushima Alibi Kuzushi episode 1 - Kasumi NakajimaMy Ex-Boyfriend's Last Will - Asahi HaraguchiAyaka Is in Love with Hiroko! - Hiroko Kanō Madoka 26-sai, Kenshui Yattemasu! - Uchida ManamiFilms
Utatama - Natsumi ShindōCho Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade Neo Generations: The Onigashima Warship - Natsumi HikariKamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker - Natsumi HikariKamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 - Natsumi Hikari/Kamen Rider Kiva-laBread of Happiness - Kaori SaitōTaiyō no Suwaru Basho - Yuki MinakamiThe Next Generation: Patlabor - Rei HaibaraHero - Saeko MikiRain Tree no Kuni - MisakoBittare!!! - Eiko SugiyamaErased - Kayo HinazukiWill You Marry My Wife? - Yoshiko KataokaYour Eyes Tell Awake - Hiromi YamauchiEvery Trick in the Book Owari ga Hajimari- Yudo: The Way of the Bath - Sara Yamaoka