Mei Nagano is a Japanese actress. She is known for playing Rinko in the film My Love Story! (2015) as well as Yosano Suzume in the film Daytime Shooting Star (2017). In June 2017, she was announced as the lead for NHK's 98th Asadora, Hanbun, Aoi, due air in April 2018.
Nagano was scouted in Kichijouji, Tokyo when she was in her third year of elementary school. She made her acting debut in the 2009 action-adventure film Hard Revenge Milly: Bloody Battle, as a minor character.
In 2015, she played the heroine, Rinko Yamato, in the romantic comedy film, My Love Story! In July 2016, she starred in her first lead role in the teen drama, Koe Koi, as high school student Yuiko Yoshioka, who meets a mysterious boy who wears a paper bag over his head. In September, she starred in the Japanese version of the film Gods of Egypt. She provided the voice for the character Zaya. She also appeared in commercials for Calpis Water, Sekisui House, Townwork, UQ Mobile, and Alpen. In 2017, she starred in the romance film, Daytime Shooting Star.
Nagano was a regular model for Japanese fashion magazines Nico☆Petite and nicola. In August 2016, she became an exclusive model for Seventeen.
Known For
Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey
Akiko
2025
News Anchor
Hana Sakikubo · (10 episodes)
2025
Brighter Days
Saho Takahashi
2025
Cells at Work!
Red Blood Cell
2024
Teasing Master Takagi-san
Takagi-san
2024
The Gift of Your Heart
Ame Aihara · (11 episodes)
2024
Mom, Is That You?!
Kanzaki Mai
2023
Burn the House Down
Anzu Murata · (8 episodes)
2023
Motherhood
Daughter
2022
My Broken Mariko
Tomoyo Shiino
2022
Riding a Unicorn
Sana Narukawa · (10 episodes)
2022
And So the Baton Is Passed
Yuko Morimiya
2021
Police in a Pod
Mai Kawai（川合 麻依） · (9 episodes)
2021
Creator's File: GOLD
(1 episode)
2021
Hell's Garden
Naoko Tanaka
2021
It's a Flickering Life
Yoshiko – Young
2021
Daddy Is My Classmate
Sakura Obika · (7 episodes)
2020
Masked Ward
Hitomi Kawasaki
2020
NiNoKuni
Asha / Kotona (voice)
2019
Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020
Herself - Commentator · (4 episodes)
2019
You Shine in the Moonlight
Mamizu Watarase
2019
Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom
Sakura Kayano · (10 episodes)
2019
Half Blue Sky
Suzume Nireno · (156 episodes)
2018
Mixed Doubles
Airi Ogasawara
2017
Fugitive Boys
Renko Aokawa · (10 episodes)
2017
Peach Girl
Sae Kashiwagi
2017
Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High
Mimiko Shiratori
2017
Parks
Haru
2017
Daytime Shooting Star
Suzume Yosano
2017
Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai
(1 episode)
2017
Voice Love
Yoshioka Yuiko · (12 episodes)
2016
Love That Makes You Cry
Remi Funakawa · (10 episodes)
2016
My Love Story!!
Rinko Yamato
2015
Teddy Go!
Amano An · (4 episodes)
2015
A Stitch of Life
Mari
2015
The Man of the Tokyo Olympics
Grace Miyako Wada [Teenager]
2014
Platonic
Sari Mochizuki · (8 episodes)
2014
GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX
2014
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Tsubame Sanjo
2012
Stand Up! Vanguard
2012
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
Sumire
2010
Asaichi
Herself · (0 episode)
2010
Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle
2009