Ellie Toyota
豊田 エリー
Born (1989-01-14) January 14, 1989 (age 35)
Other namesErika Ward
OccupationActress
Agentloca
Spouse
(m. 2010)
Children1

Ellie Toyota (Japanese: 豊田 エリー, Hepburn: Toyota Erī, born January 14, 1989) is a Japanese actress.

Career

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While in her first year of junior high school, Toyota was scouted in Shibuya and joined Stardust Promotion.[citation needed]

In 2003, under the name Erika Ward, Toyota made her musical debut as a member of Snappeas, an idol group formed as image girls for Odaiba Adventure King 2003.[1]

Toyota made her film debut in A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth in 2006.[citation needed] She also starred in Erin's Challenge! She Can Speak Japanese as the titular Erin, a foreign exchange student.[2]

In 2007, Toyota appeared in a commercial for the Mr. Children album B-Side as well as the promotional video for the song "Hibiki" from the album.[3]

Toyota appeared in the Ad Council Japan and NHK joint campaign commercial "Panashi no Hanashi" in 2009.[4]

In 2013, Toyota was the cover model for the first issue of Hakusensha's kodomoe, released on November 7.[5] She appeared in Tamagawa Ward Office of the Dead in 2014 as Nagisa Ono.[6]

Toyota made her stage debut as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, directed by Takahiro Fujita at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, in 2016.[7]

In 2019, Toyota appeared in Although Stock Is Limited, written and directed by Takuya Katō, with the Tagumi Theatre Company.[8]

In 2021, Toyota appeared in Light House by Mum and Gypsy, performed at the opening series of the Naha Cultural Arts Theatre Nahart, a newly opened theatre in Okinawa Prefecture.[9] That year, Toyota also had her first overseas performance with A la marge, written and directed by Tomohiro Maekawa, which was invited to the Festival d'Automne in Paris.[10]

On March 21, 2023, Toyota announced that she had joined a new agency, loca.[11]

Personal life and education

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Toyota was born on January 14, 1989,[12] in Tokyo, Japan,[13] to an English father and Japanese mother. In 2005, Toyota transferred to Horikoshi High School. There, she met Yuya Yagira, whom she dated secretly, as male-female relationships were against school rules.[14] In 2010, they submitted their marriage registration on Toyota's 21st birthday and held the wedding ceremony at Meiji Shrine a day later on January 15.[15] On May 14, she announced that she was pregnant with her first child;[16] she gave birth to her daughter on October 13.[17]

References

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  1. ^ お台場冒険王イメージガール Snappeas スナッピーズ [Odaiba Adventure King Image Girl Snappeas]. Fuji TV. Archived from the original on August 12, 2003.
  2. ^ このサイトについて [About This Website]. Erin's Challenge! She Can Speak Japanese (in Japanese). Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  3. ^ 女優・豊田エリー、ミスチルMV出演の裏話を明かす [Actress Ellie Toyota reveals the behind-the-scenes story behind her appearance in the Misu-Chiru MV]. J-Wave News (in Japanese). October 23, 2017. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  4. ^ 豊田エリー 2009年度AC・NHK共同キャンペーン CM ぱなしのはなし 30秒版「ぱなしはなしって、話です」/豊田エリー CM bb-navi [Ellie Toyota 2009 AC/NHK joint campaign CM Panashi no Hanashi 30 second version "Panashi Hanashi is a story" / Ellie Toyota CM bb-navi]. bb-navi (in Japanese). June 1, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  5. ^ 白泉社 kodomoe (コドモエ) 創刊号 豊田エリー [Hakusensha kodomoe First Issue Ellie Toyota]. CM Watch (in Japanese). November 7, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  6. ^ ドラマ☆ 玉川区役所 OF THE DEAD|BSテレ東 [Drama ☆ Tamagawa Ward Office OF THE DEAD | BS TV Tokyo]. BS TV Tokyo (in Japanese). Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  7. ^ 藤田貴大、青柳いづみ&豊田エリーで『ロミオとジュリエット』を二人の少女の物語に [Takahiro Fujita, Izumi Aoyagi & Ellie Toyota turn Romeo and Juliet into a story about two girls]. Enter Stage (in Japanese). Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  8. ^ 劇団た組。「在庫に限りはありますが」に豊田エリー、森下亮、木本花音ほか [Tagumi Theatre Company. Although Stock Is Limited Ellie Toyota, Ryo Morishita, Kanon Kimoto, and Others]. Pia (in Japanese). Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  9. ^ マームとジプシーの新作「Light house」が、沖縄の新劇場こけら落としシリーズに [Mum and Gypsy's new work Light House will be part of Okinawa's new theater opening series]. Stage Natalie (in Japanese). Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  10. ^ "Tomohiro Maekawa, À la marge | The Paris Autumn Festival". Festival d'Automne à Paris. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  11. ^ 豊田エリー新事務所所属を報告するとともに「この5年間は、個人で活動をしていました」 [Ellie Toyota in addition to announcing affiliation her new office, she also said, "For the past five years, I have been working as an individual"]. Nikkan Sports (in Japanese). March 21, 2023. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  12. ^ 豊田 エリー ELLIE TOYOTA - loca [Ellie Toyota ELLIE TOYOTA - loca]. loca (in Japanese). March 14, 2023. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  13. ^ タレントプロフィール 豊田エリー [Tarento Profile Ellie Toyota]. Stardust Promotion. Archived from the original on June 26, 2008.
  14. ^ 豊田エリー&柳楽優弥、「バレれば謹慎」禁断の校内恋愛を赤裸々告白 [Ellie Toyota & Yuya Yagira openly confess their forbidden school romance, "If found out, you will be disciplined"]. Sports Nippon (in Japanese). June 27, 2018. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  15. ^ 柳楽&豊田に聞く…子供は未定「2人の時間楽しみたい」 [Ask Yagira & Toyota... Children undecided: "I want to enjoy time as two people"]. Sports Hochi. January 16, 2010. Archived from the original on January 17, 2010.
  16. ^ 豊田エリー、妊娠をブログで報告…柳楽優弥も日記更新 [Ellie Toyota announces her pregnancy on her blog... Yuya Yagira also updates his diary]. Nippon TV (in Japanese). May 14, 2010. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  17. ^ 柳楽優弥、20歳でパパに!妻・豊田エリーに女の子が誕生!出産に立ち会い感動の涙! [Yuya Yagira becomes a father at the age of 20! His wife, Ellie Toyota, has a baby girl! Tears of emotion as he witnessed the birth!]. Cinema Today (in Japanese). October 14, 2010. Retrieved October 19, 2023.