Natsuki Deguchi

Japanese actress and model (born 2001)

  • Actress
  • model
Years active2018–presentAgentIncentModeling informationHeight162 cm (5 ft 4 in)Hair colorblackEye colorbrown Japanese nameKanji出口 夏希Hiraganaでぐち なつき
Transcriptions
RomanizationDeguchi Natsuki

Natsuki Deguchi (出口夏希, Deguchi Natsuki, born October 4, 2001) is a Japanese actress and model who is affiliated with Incent.

Biography

Natsuki Deguchi was born on October 4, 2001, in China, to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father. She has three elder sisters and one younger brother;[1] they were raised in Tokyo, Japan.[2]

Deguchi is bilingual; she can speak both Chinese and Japanese, with the former specifically being the Hokkien dialect from Fujian Province, and she mostly only speaks it at home.[3] 

Career

While at Miyamasuzaka, Shibuya, with a friend, she was scouted by an Incent staff. Deguchi had previously been scouted by several other agencies before [to which she all declined], but admiring actress and model Mizuki Yamamoto, whom she heard belonged to the agency, she accepted the offer.[4] She debuted in March 2018. Her first job after joining Incent was a photo shoot for the fast fashion brand "Shimamura".[4] She applied and participated in the "Miss Seventeen 2018" sponsored by Shueisha, and showed off her fluent Chinese in an appeal video by the final candidates.[5]

On August 23, 2018, it was announced at the "Seventeen Summer School Festival 2018" held at Pacifico Yokohama National Hall that six people, including Deguchi, had been selected as "Miss Seventeen 2018".[6] With Suzu Hirose "graduating" as the exclusive model for the said magazine at the end of the event, the six Miss Seventeen candidates took part in an interview photo shoot.[7][8]

Deguchi was selected as the "HARUTA [ja] IMAGE GIRL 2019", they made photo collages of various clothing items incorporating loafers that was then later published in Seventeen and on Haruta's official website.[9] She starred in her first television appearance in the TV drama Cocoa, which aired in January 2019, it was a drama adaptation of the grand prize winning work of the 30th Fuji Television Young Scenario Awards [ja], with an omnibus format which follows three high school girls played by Sara Minami, Deguchi, and Riko Nagase as the main characters.[10][11] In the second episode of the TV drama Love Sickness and the Guys in BS Nippon Television, which began airing in July of the same year, she appeared as the middle school classmate of the main character played by Ryuga Sato.[12][13]

In April 2021, She appeared regularly in two dramas: Girl Gun Lady [ja] in Mainichi Broadcasting and Kotaro Lives Alone in TV Asahi.[14]

On December 2020, she made her very first movie appearance as the young Isabella in the movie The Promised Neverland. On July 22, 2022, with the summer issue of Seventeen released, after four years, she "graduated" from being their exclusive model.[15] On September 16 of the same year, she made another appearance in the movie Silent Parade, playing the role of Natsumi Namiki.[16] She then became an exclusive model for women's fashion magazine Non-no for the December issue which was released on October 20.[17]

She co-starred with Nana Mori in the original drama The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House scheduled to be released on Netflix on January 13, 2023, Deguchi plays the role of Sumire, marking her first lead role in a drama.[18] Her first photo book entitled liberte was released on March 24, 2023.[19]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2020 The Promised Neverland Young Isabella [20]
2022 Silent Parade Natsumi Namiki [16]
2023 Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill Chiyo [21]
2024 Drawing Closer Haruna Sakurai [22]
Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards Honeko Akabane [23]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2019 Cocoa Kaori Suzumori Lead role [24]
Love Sickness and the Guys Yuri Kuraki Episode 2 [12]
2020 Switch Yen Tsutaya [25]
Unsung Cinderella: Prescriptions of a Hospital Pharmacist [ja] Hasegawa Airi Episode 7 [26]
Curry Song Madoka Mori Lead role [27]
2021 Girl Gun Lady Akiho Inada [14]
Kotaro Lives Alone Tōko Futaba [14]
2022 The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House Sumire/Momohana Lead role [18]
2023 18/40: Unbreakable Bond of Dreams [ja] Sena Nishimura [28]
2023–24 Ao Haru Ride Futaba Yoshioka Lead role; 2 seasons [29]

Music Video

Year released, name of the artist, and title of the song
Year Artist Title Ref(s)
2018 Skirt Distant Spring [30]
2020 Hana Sekitori Please give me now [31]
Crybaby Nemonaire [32]
2021 Transistory Project Sparkler in love with a ghost [33]

Commercials

  • Vieris Co., Ltd. "KIREIMO" (March 10, 2021)[34][35]
  • Mister Donut Sweet Potato Do "Sweetness is oozing. Secret Potato Do" (August 27, 2021)[36]
  • Coca-Cola Japan Sokenbicha "Forward Me" (May 29, 2023)[37]
  • Ajinomoto Hondashi "Hondashi Shopkeeper" (September 19, 2023)[38]

Bibliography

Magazine

  • Seventeen (October 2018 issue - Summer 2022 issue, Shueisha) - Exclusive model[39]
  • Non-no (December 2022 issue, Shueisha) - Exclusive model[17]

Photobooks

  • liberte (KADOKAWA, on March 24, 2023)[19]

References

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  2. ^ 谷口伸仁 (July 30, 2019). "美少女すぎる17歳・出口夏希。竹下通りでスカウト10人が…" [Natsuki Deguchi is a very beautiful 17-year-old girl. 10 scouts on Takeshita Street...]. 日刊SPA! (in Japanese). Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2023.
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