Acting

Kana Kita

Born 23 August 1997 · Tokyo · 29

Aspired to be an actress for as long as she can remember. Began acting in the sixth grade of elementary school, admiring Reiko Takashima and Akiko Yada. In 2010, she appeared as Anne of Green Gables in the musical Anne of Green Gables - Letters from Anne. In 2012, she won the Grand Prize with Miko Sakakibara in the 1st CM Virtual Audition organized by CM NOW. In 2013, she played a deaf girl in her first film. In 2017, she made a guest appearance in Geki drama 9 Kizoku Tantei (2017). In 2018, she was selected as a lead voice actress for the animated movie Penguin Highway (2018), written by Tomihiko Morimi. She says that working as a voice actress was her "dream" and that she did a lot of research for this film by going to visit the class of her younger sister, who is in the same fourth grade as her character. In 2019 she stars in both parts of the horror film Black Maiden: Chapter Q (2019) and Black Maiden: Chapter A (2019). In recent years she has appeared in various television dramas such as Koisenu Futari (2022) or Konya wa Konoji de (2020). She has studied ballet since the age of three. Her special skill is mime. Her hobbies are shopping and solo karaoke, and she often sings songs by Yasuko Omori. He admires the actress Chizuru Ikewaki and says of her, "I thought her natural, everyday way of delivering dialogue was amazing. I want to be an actress with this kind of register." She mentions Spirited Away (2001) as the first film that impressed her, and says that at the time she remembered every line.