Career
She is best known for roles such as in Nana and Virgin Snow. Her brother Masaru Miyazaki is also an actor, and they starred together in the film Hatsukoi. She is considered one of Japan"s most beautiful women.
Miyazaki started working in the entertainment industry at the age of four.
Initially she appeared mostly in commercials, magazine advertisements, and as an extra in television dramas. Miyazaki made her film debut in Ano Natsu no Hi at the age of fourteen.
Also at the age of 14, Miyazaki began to draw international attention for her role as the survivor of a traumatic bus hijack in Shinji Aoyama"s Eureka. In 2003, she also made her musical debut in The Little Prince.
She teamed up with Aoyama again in Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani?, an Un Certain Regard selection at Cannes 2005.
Later in the same year, she co-starred with Mika Nakashima in the mainstream and commercially successful Nana. She starred in the 2014 television series, Genji: Unleashed. Miyazaki has appeared in commercials for major corporations including Aflac, Tokyo Metro, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone DoCoMo and Olympus.
In early 2008, she was also selected as Emporio Armani"s new print advertisement model.
Miyazaki has been the face of the Japanese popular apparel brand Earth music&ecology since 2010. In recent years, Miyazaki has taken a more prominent position in humanitarian activism projects.
In 2006, the siblings traveled to Denmark and Finland to investigate global warming. Their experiences were then published in their 2007 photobooks Love, Peace, and Green Tarinai, Peace2.
In April 2008, Miyazaki took part in the Gold Ribbon Walking event in Roppongi, Tokyo to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer.
Her 2008 film Children of the Dark also addresses issues of child exploitation.