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