Kyoko Yoshine
Kyōko Yoshine is a Japanese actress.
Biography
Yoshine was born on February 28, 1997, in Tokyo. Her family consists of mother, father, and an elder brother.In her second year of junior high school, she developed Guillain-Barré syndrome, which made it difficult for her to attend school for a year, but she later overcame the condition and has since fully recovered.
Career
While attending a concert with a friend during highschool, Yoshine was spotted by a talent scout and entered the entertainment industry.In 2013, she made her debut as an actress in the Fuji TV drama Last Cinderella. She cites Ryoko Shinohara who was the lead in the drama, as an actress she admires.
In 2014, she was selected through auditions held in Fukushima and Tokyo, and made her first film appearance and first leading role in the film The Piano in the Storeroom. In the same year, she made her debut in the NHK's Asadora drama series Hanako to Anne, portraying the daughter of Hanako's best friend.
In 2015, she appeared in the coming-of-age film The Curtain Rises. In the same year, she was selected from over 1,000 candidates in a casting audition and portrayed her first leading role in the TBS drama Omotesando High School Choir!.
In 2016, She starred in the Asadora drama series Beppinsan. Two years later, in 2018, Yoshine again starred in an Asadora drama series, Princess Jellyfish, as Tsukimi Kurashita.
Also in 2018, she co-starred with Tao Tsuchiya in the film Kasane and Chiri Tsubaki, for which she received much praise and won the Newcomer of the Year Award at the 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize.