Biography
Born in Osaka, Japan as Sung Yu-Ri to a South Korean mother and a Japanese father of Korean descent in 1982. Yuri became active in the entertainment industry in 1998. She was accepted at TV Tokyo's Asayan audition in 1996 and formed the musical duo YuriMari with Izawa Mari, which made its debut in 1998. They broke up a year later. With the help of Avex Management she began acting in 2003 first on the small screen and subsequently on the silver one. She won the Rookie Award at the third Osaka Cinema Festival in 2008 for her role in Pacchigi! Love & Peace of 2007. She transferred to Alpha Agency from Avex Management in early 2013. Yuri also hosted a NHK documentary, called The World On A Bicycle: Uzbekistan, which was released in 2014. She has been pushing corporate products and services since the beginning of the century as well. She likes to travel.
Filmography
Cast Credits

Hiraba's Moon
Character:
MOVIE • 2025

Romantics Anonymous
Character: Irene
TV • 2025

終幕のロンド —もう二度と、会えないあなたに—
Character: Makoto Mikuriya
TV • 2025

Introduction to Marriage Studies
Character: Sana Ikegami
MOVIE • 2025

鬼平犯科帳 暗剣白梅香
Character:
MOVIE • 2025

鬼平犯科帳 老盗の夢
Character:
MOVIE • 2025

119 Emergency Call
Character: Kazuha Takachiho
TV • 2025

Beyond Goodbye
Character: Miki
TV • 2024

My Diary
Character: Midori Tomita
TV • 2024

鬼平犯科帳 血頭の丹兵衛
Character:
MOVIE • 2024

鬼平犯科帳 でくの十蔵
Character:
MOVIE • 2024

Samural Detective Onihei:Blood for Blood
Character:
MOVIE • 2024

Amalock
Character: Chikamatsu Aiko
MOVIE • 2024

The Ghostly Detective: Honjo · The Cherry Mansion
Character:
MOVIE • 2024

Ichiko
Character: Natsumi Kawanabe
MOVIE • 2023

We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
Character: Nene Yamane
MOVIE • 2023

Motherhood
Character: Sasaki Hitomi
MOVIE • 2022

By the Window
Character: Sai Ichikawa
MOVIE • 2022

The Black Swindler
Character: Kanoko Hayase
TV • 2022

Hiroshima Django
Character:
MOVIE • 2022