Yanai Yumena

, is a Japanese actress and model. She is signed under the talent agency Irving.

Biography Yanai was born on June 21, 2000, in Kōriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture. She is the eldest of four siblings, with two younger brothers and one younger sister. As of 2026, Yumena Yanai is 26 years old. Career In 2016, Yanai participated in the "Miss Seventeen 2016" exclusive model audition for Seventeen magazine, in which she was selected as one of the 20 finalists from a total of 6,103 candidates. In the same year, Yanai was scouted by an entertainment agency while out in Harajuku. In October, she joined the talent agency Irving, and was selected as the cover model for "Fukushima Bishojo Zukan" and for a commercial.

In 2017, she again took part in the "Miss Seventeen 2017" pageant and this time became the grand prize winner out of 5,981 candidates and became an exclusive model for the said magazine. A year later in July 2018, she made her debut as an actress in the television drama as Honoka Tachibana. This work soon became a big hit with both the television audience and readers of the original work for its "faithful portrayal" of the storyline in the manga, so much so that a special drama was produced in March 2021 and a second season was produced in April of that year. In July, she also appeared in the drama's in TV Asahi and Koto no Hana. In March, she "graduated" as an exclusive model for the women's fashion magazine Seventeen after over three and a half years with the brand. In April of the same year, she played her first leading role in a film in the movie Two in Space, the film was released in theaters two years later in October 2023.

In April 2023, she appeared in the Sunday drama Passion for Punchlines as the protagonist's older sister, Mai Wakabayashi, marking her second prime-time drama appearance in four years since Where Did My Skirt Go? in 2019.

Filmography Film

Television