Yu Takahashi (高橋 ユウ, Takahashi Yū, born January 19, 1991) is a Japanese actress and model of Japanese-Filipino descent. She is represented by the Asia Promotion talent agency.

Biography

Early life
Takahashi was born to a Japanese father and a Filipino mother. She won the Grand Prix in a female vocal audition in 2006 held by the TV Tokyo show Output.


Career
She started her career as an exclusive model for the Cawaii! magazine and released her first photo book, Yu, in 2008. After that, she was an exclusive model for the Pinky magazine until 2009.

She appeared regularly in the NHK Educational TV television program Kyō Kara Eikaiwa in 2007. As an actress, she played Yuri Aso in TV Asahi's Kamen Rider Kiva and starred in the 2008 film version, Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World. She played a leading role in the 2012 film, Brand Guardians, with South Korean actor Yoon Shi-yoon. In 2013, she played the role of Makoto/Sailor Jupiter in a musical remake of Sailor Moon: La Reconquista and in 2014 in musical Sailor Moon: Petite Étrangère.