Riko

is a Japanese actress and model. who affiliated with NDPromotion. She is former exclusive model for Popteen.

Biography In June 2014, when she was in sixth grade, she applied to all runways of the fashion show that her favorite fashion brand, Anap Girl, was open to the public, and became a web model for the brand.

In June 2017, she won the Junior Block Award, a special prize for junior high school students, at the Zipper model audition. She appeared as a model in the Zipper Summer issue. In March 2018, she graduated from Anap Girl's modeling. On March 31 of the same year, she became a regular model for the magazine of Popteen, and exclusive model. She also made her debut as an actress in the Don't Toke, Summer.

In 2018 around May, her videos posted on TikTok became famous, and she gained many followers.

In 2019, she made her first appearance on the cover April edition for Popteen. In the same year, as a Popteen model and high school student, she was appointed as the MC for Asahi Broadcasting Television's video posting variety show, Bukatsu ONE! Broadcasting Club. From January 5, 2020, she appeared in AbemaTV's romance reality show Don't be Fooled by the Moon and the Wolf Girl. A month after that she was ranked first in the Favorite Model Ranking for the first time in March 2020 issue of Popteen. In June 2020 she appeared on the cover of Popteen for the first time. She also made her first drama debut in the Distortion Girl.

Her first leading role in a serial drama was Black Cinderella which aired during the summer of 2021. In June of the same year, she graduated as an exclusive model with the July 2021 issue of Popteen magazine as the only model for the magazine. She also made a guest appearance in the drama Metropolitan Police Department Zero Section – Life Safety Division Anything Counseling Room, which was her first appearance in a terrestrial drama. After that, she started to get regular roles, one of which was in Fight Song.

She made her first stage appearance in the play Holy Monster held at the New National Theater during the spring of 2023. She appear in live action film, And Yet, You Are So Sweet. In June 2023, she announced that she would be joining in a live-action television drama adaptation of Ao Haru Ride for two season.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2019 Parallel School Days: The Movie Kokuchi Naruko 2020 God of Novels Chitani Hinako 2022 The Blue Skies at Your Feet Marui Sakiko Ox-Head Village Mitsuki To Be Killed by a High School Girl Kimishima Kyoko Kisaragi Station Matsui Miki 2023 Scroll Haru And Yet, You Are So Sweet Obara Chika Love Will Tear Us Apart Yamaguchi Kanna Take Me to Another Planet Mucchan Lead role 2024 Koi wo Shiranai Bokutachi wa Shiozaki Izumi

Drama Year Title Role Notes 2024 Informa Hirose