Name: 山田優 (やまだ ゆう)
Name (romaji): Yamada Yuu
Real name: 山田優子 / Yamada Yuko
Profession: Actress, model, and singer
Birthdate: 1984-Jul-05
Birthplace: Onna, Okinawa, Japan
Height: 169cm
Star sign: Cancer
Blood type: O
Family: Two younger brothers (actor Yamada Shintaro)
Yuu Yamada (山田 優, Yamada Yū is a japananese model, actress, and singer best known from her modeling work with CanCam magazine. Yamada graduated from Okinawa Actor's School. In 1999, while working as a model for the Japanese fashion magazine CanCam under an exclusive contract, she also worked as a singer in the group y'z factory (formed with two other students of the Okinawa Actor's School) and released a total of six singles and one album, but in 2002 the group disbanded.
Following the group's break up, Yamada moved to television, making her acting debut in the 2001 drama series Kabachitare! which led to many other drama roles such as in Kange! Danjiki Goikkosama, and Orange Days as well as hosting jobs for NTV’s Minna no Terebi and Fuji TV’s F1 Grand Prix. She has also starred in a few films acting alongside many prominent young stars including, Ryuhei Matsuda, Hiroki Narimiya and Shugo Oshinari.
Yamada Yuu has also appeared in advertisements for Nissin instant foods, Ezaki Glico, Vodafone cellular phones, Kanebo line of cosmetics, Canon and most recently Fujitsu Ten navigation systems.
In 2006 Yamada debuted as a solo artist with the single "Real You" which was used as the theme song for the movie Akihabara@DEEP (starring Yamada herself) and peaked at number 10 on the Oricon Charts.
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