Kanna Mori (森 カンナ, Mori Kan'na; born June 22, 1988 in Toyama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actress. She is best known as Natsumi Hikari, the female lead in the Kamen Rider Decade television series and films.
She worked under the stage name Kanna Moriya (森矢 カンナ, Moriya Kan'na) from June 2017 to June 2021.
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Early life and career
Although she was born in Toyama, she actually grew up in the Kansai region, having lived in Moriguchi, Osaka from age two until the fifth grade, and in Kyoto from the fifth grade until the second year of junior high school. When she moved to Tokyo due to her father's work, she began modeling for women's fashion magazines at the recommendation of a relative. Later, after gaining an interest in acting through an audition for a commercial, she was introduced to Hirata Office and began her acting career. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Tamagawa High School. After appearing in films such as "Utatama", she began her full-fledged acting career in 2009, playing the heroine Hikari Natsumi in " Kamen Rider Decade ".
She won the audition for the role of a female detective partner to the lead actor, Ikki Sawamura, in the drama Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Missing Persons Investigation Unit from among 2,298 other candidates. In June 2017, she moved from Hirata Office to Sony Music Artists and changed her stage name to Kanna Moriya.
On July 1, 2021, after her marriage to Yudai Baba, she also announced that she had left her agency, Sony Music Artists, and had changed her stage name back to her real name, Kanna Mori.
As of January 2024, she is listed as an artist affiliated with GATE, and in July of the same year, she co-starred with Shiho Kato in the MBS / TBS drama series Ayaka Is In Love with Hiroko, marking her first lead role in a television drama.
Personal life
On July 1, 2021, Mori announced her marriage to Japanese basketball player Yudai Baba.
Filmography
Television
Kamen Rider Decade (2009) - Natsumi Hikari
Samurai Sentai Shinkenger episode 21 (2009-2010) - Natsumi Hikari
Indigo no Yoru (2010) - Tetsu/Momoko Kawamura
Keishichō Shissōnin Sōsaka (2010) - Megumi Myōjin
Kasonsuke no Onna Season 10 episode 10 (2010) - Nami Asaba
The Fugitive: Plan B episode 3 (2010) - Kieko's stalker
Keishichō Shissōnin Sōsaka Special (2011) - Megumi Myōjin
Shitsure Hoken (2011) episode 6-7 - Yuuki Kazuki
Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de episode 8 (2011) - Natsuki Miyamoto
Beginners! episode 8 (2012) - Machiko Kosaka
Tōkyō Zenryoku Shōjo (2012) - Haruka Kubo
Dinner episode 5 (2013) - Minami Natsuno
Kodomo Kenshi episode 6-10 (2013) - Arisa Arisugawa
Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo episode 6-16 (2013) - Yuko Matsumoto
Meshibana Keiji Tachibana episode 6 (2013) - Yoyogi
Shomuni 2013 (2013) - Misuzu Kojima
Keishichou Sousa Ikka 9-Gakari Season 6 episode 9 (2014) - Misuzu Akimoto
Films
Utatama (2008) - Natsumi Shindō
Cho Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade Neo Generations: The Onigashima Warship (2009) - Natsumi Hikari
Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker (2009) - Natsumi Hikari
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 (2009) - Natsumi Hikari/Kamen Rider Kiva-la
Bread of Happiness (2012) - Kaori Saitō
Taiyō no Suwaru Basho (2014) - Yuki Minakami
The Next Generation: Patlabor (2015) - Rei Haibara
Hero (2015) - Saeko Miki
Rain Tree no Kuni (2015) - Misako
Bittare!!! (2015) - Eiko Sugiyama
Erased (2016) - Kayo Hinazuki
Will You Marry My Wife? (2016) - Yoshiko Kataoka
Your Eyes Tell (2020)
Awake (2020) - Hiromi Yamauchi
Every Trick in the Book (2021)
Owari ga Hajimari (2021)
Yudo: The Way of the Bath (2023) - Sara Yamaoka
Videogames
Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbarizing (2019) - Kamen Rider Kiva-la (Voice)
