Sayaka Yoshino

On April, 2017, it was announced Yoshino held a wedding ceremony after having registered her union with her husband 7 years before. Images of her as a bride and a message of gratitude was made public.

In 2012, it was announced that Yoshino had married her partner / boyfriend (a U.S. citizen) in 2010.

Yoshino began her career in 1994 after being selected in a public audition by a talent agency that she applied herself. After gaining popularity as a model appearing in fashion magazines, winning reader polled contests, and being cast in spoken roles for television commercials, she was cast in the first feature film ''Maborosi'' by film director Koreeda Hirokazu. At about the same time she began appearing as a guest actress on television drama's and started to take on more extended roles in other feature films. Yoshino was cast in character designer and director Keita Amemiya's fantasy - action film, ''Moon Over Tao'' and again in Koreeda's second feature film, ''After Life'', of which garnered critical acclaim both in Japan and abroad. Yoshino's growing popularity defined a new phenomenon, as a young multi-faceted idol, which the media coined "Chaidol" (combining the words "child" and "idol").

Sayaka Yoshino (吉野 紗香 , Yoshino Sayaka) (born May 14, 1982) is a Japanese actress, model, and television personality. One of the first popular teen models / idols known in Japan as "Chaidoru" (a word play on child and idol), she has appeared in numerous TV drama's, commercials, and films.