Norika Fujiwara

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Norika Fujiwara

Norika Fujiwara (藤原紀香 Fujiwara Norika, born June 28, 1971 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture) is a Japanese beauty queen, model and actress. She became Miss Japan in 1992 and was an exclusive model for CanCam magazine. She has appeared in various commercials and TV series and a number of films in Japan.

[edit] Biography

  • After several years of model work, she has since worked internationally as a journalist and spokesperson, including acting as an ambassador of Japanese - Korean friendship during the football World Cup 2002, reporting from the 2004 Olympics in Greece, and going to Afghanistan and holding a photo exhibition there.
  • She has also worked in video games, her latest work as the main character Alicia in Project Minerva (PS2) (2002), a squad-based, real-time semi-RPG versus rogue robots game, released in an updated English form with more missions as Project Minerva Professional by Midas Interactive of the UK.
  • She also voiced Princess Fiona in the Japanese-dubbed versions of Shrek and Shrek 2.
  • She spent one month in a homestay program with a family in the United States and continues to study English. She reportedly hopes to someday act in an English-language movie produced in the West such as in the United States or Great Britain.[1]
  • According to newspapers, she will marry with the Osaka-based comedian Tomonori Jinnai in 2007.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mainichi Shimbun, Norika gets Octopussy-whipped over her Bond-age fantasy, 6 August 2004
  2. ^ Mainichi Shimbun, Actress Norika Fujiwara to tie the knot with comedian Tomonori Jinnai, 15 November 2006

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