Background
Kutsuna was born on 22 December 1992 in Killarney Heights, Sydney, Australia.
忽那 汐里
Kutsuna was born on 22 December 1992 in Killarney Heights, Sydney, Australia.
She is best known for her role as Ran Mori in Shinichi Kudo"s Written Challenge and Minami Maho in BECK. She lived in Australia until the age of 14 before moving to Japan to pursue a career as an idol and actress. In 2009, she had her first major starring role. She played the part of Tsugumi Nitobe in 7 Mannin Tantei Nitobe (70 000 People Detective Nitobe), an ordinary college student who has 70000 friends on the Internet and solves difficult cases by utilising their brains.
In 2011, she was cast to play Ran Mori in a special drama for the live-action of Detective Conan, a popular manga series written by Gosho Aoyama.
She replaced Tomoka Kurokawa, who played Ran in the previous specials in 2006 and 2007. In 2012, she was named Best New Actress of 2011 by film magazine Kinema Junpo.
In 2011, together with actresses Mayuko Kawakita and Riko Narumi, Kutsuna graduated from Horikoshi High School in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. In 2013, she dropped out of college, before starting her third year, for the sake of her career.
Her agency said: "lieutenant really was difficult for her to work while going to school.
She had a hard time attending classes due to her work in dramas. She accepted this and dropped out. She will now be focusing on her acting career".
Kutsuna is fluent in both English and Japanese.
She is currently affiliated with Oscar Promotion.
Quotations:
"lieutenant really was difficult for her to work while going to school. She had a hard time attending classes due to her work in dramas. She accepted this and dropped out.
She will now be focusing on her acting career".