, known by her
stage name
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, is a Japanese actress and model. She studied at
Mejiro University, where she majored in English.
History
Personal life
She married actor
Joe Odagiri, who is exactly 11 years her senior, on February 16, 2008, the birthday the couple share. She gave birth to two sons in both February 2011 and April 2014. The youngest son died a year later due to an
intestinal obstruction
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.
Kashii's maternal grandfather is a
European-American
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newspaper reporter, and thus her ethnic background is ¼ European. Kashii spent her childhood in
Singapore
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and attended elementary school there. She has been said to have exactly the same dimensions for her right and left side of the face which led to a German doctor wanting to use her face as a specimen for research uses.
Biography
Kashii got her start in the entertainment business as an in-house model for the Japanese teen
magazine
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''mc Sister'' in 2001. Her first acting role was in the movie adaptation of ''
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean'' in which she played the title character.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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HORIPRO Official site: 香椎由宇(In Japanese)
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Japanese female models
Living people
1987 births
Actresses from Kanagawa Prefecture
Japanese people of American descent
Models from Kanagawa Prefecture
People from Ayase, Kanagawa
Japanese film actresses
Japanese stage actresses
Japanese television actresses
21st-century Japanese actresses