Haruno Niiyama
Biography
Haruno Niiyama was born and raised in Osaka. She started classical ballet at the age of 5 and played a leading role in singing solo songs in a kid’s musicals through an audition. She then became interested in acting. She graduated as a theater major in Osaka. Also, she has been trained in acting at the Actor Clinic which is concluded as the sole agency of Stella Adler Studio in Japan. Moreover, she is trained in acting and dancing, singing, Japanese sword stunt performance, and Iaido. Especially, Her samurai performance has attracted people’s attention, and her Instagram has more than 16,000 followers now. In Japan, she was on a famous Japanese TV show “Ultraman Taiga”, other TV shows too. She was on a Chinese movie, “她杀”(2019) directed by Cao Baoping, and also appeared in commercial videos such as Twitter Japan, Tokyo Disneyland, Seven-Eleven, and so on.
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Natsu No Kata
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Yuki
This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as Female high-school student
As science is growing ever closer to the taboo field of regenerative medicine, a mysterious new student named Maki Togawa begins attending the International Dolly Girls' College. Soon after, a series of strange and horrific events occur in and around the school, seemingly in the proximity of or due to new student Maki.
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Two same-age girls become stepsisters overnight and, left to live together, slowly turn awkward cohabitation into a warm bond as cooking and shared meals help them open up to each other.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet again and their love story continue.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Haruno
Seisa lives in Inujima, a small island in Okayama. She posts pictures of the island on SNS. One day, a Japanese woman living in Canada contacts her through her SNS account and asks her to take pictures of Inujima from her memories. Seisa sets out to look for those spots...
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Ayano Kitano
Ayano, Japanese migrant worker faces reality of living in a foreign land. She tries to seek a way to stay and live in Canada.