Yuya Yagira (柳楽 優弥, Yagira Yūya, born March 26, 1990) is a
Japanese actor. In 2004, he became the youngest winner of the Best
Actor award in the history of the Cannes Film Festival for his
portrayal of 12-year-old Akira in the highly acclaimed Nobody
Knows.Yagira was 12 years old and not a professional actor, when
filming began for Nobody Knows in 2002. He then immediately went on to
television projects and other films. He co-starred with Eriko Sato in
Akane Yamada's All to the Sea which was released in 2010 and
co-starred with Kie Kitano in Taro Hyugaji's Under the Nagasaki Sky,
released in 2013.He was hospitalized on August 29, 2008 for a drug
overdose, with early reports calling it a suicide attempt. Yagira
later denied that he had been trying to kill himself, noting that he
was the one who called an ambulance after he began feeling ill from
taking the pills. According to his blog: .mw-parser-output
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January 15, 2010, Yuya Yagira married TV personality Ellie Toyota at
Tokyo's Meiji Shrine. They had registered their marriage on January
14.
Japanese actor. In 2004, he became the youngest winner of the Best
Actor award in the history of the Cannes Film Festival for his
portrayal of 12-year-old Akira in the highly acclaimed Nobody
Knows.Yagira was 12 years old and not a professional actor, when
filming began for Nobody Knows in 2002. He then immediately went on to
television projects and other films. He co-starred with Eriko Sato in
Akane Yamada's All to the Sea which was released in 2010 and
co-starred with Kie Kitano in Taro Hyugaji's Under the Nagasaki Sky,
released in 2013.He was hospitalized on August 29, 2008 for a drug
overdose, with early reports calling it a suicide attempt. Yagira
later denied that he had been trying to kill himself, noting that he
was the one who called an ambulance after he began feeling ill from
taking the pills. According to his blog: .mw-parser-output
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.templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}On
January 15, 2010, Yuya Yagira married TV personality Ellie Toyota at
Tokyo's Meiji Shrine. They had registered their marriage on January
14.
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