Career
Born in a rural area of Nara Prefecture, Ono was spotted by the film director Naomi Kawase cleaning out the shoe boxes at her junior high school, and cast in the lead role in Kawase"s Suzaku, which earned the filmmaker the Camera d"Or at the 1997 Cannes Festival. Also appearing on television, Ono was selected in an audition of 1850 actresses to play the coveted lead role in Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai"s Asadora entitled Carnation which began broadcasting in October 2011.
