BirthOctober 181989

Riisa Naka

Riisa Naka, Japanese model and actress

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When
Wednesday, October 18 198937 years ago
Category
BirthA notable person born on this day. Each links to a person page with their dates and story.
Era
20th century · 1980s
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Person
Riisa Naka

At a glance

Born 1989-10-18.

Who they were

Personal life Naka has a Swedish grandfather, making her one-quarter Swedish and three-quarters Japanese. She was named Riisa after Leonardo da Vinci ’s Mona Lisa painting which her grandfather had an affection for. [ 1 ] She was given a Best New Talent award at the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival and became famous by appearing in Hachi One Diver , a drama that aired in 2008. [ citation needed ]

Riisa Naka is a Japanese actress. She was given a Best New Talent award at the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival. Naka became famous by appearing in Hachi One Diver (2008) and played the lead, Hana Adachi, in Yankee-kun to Megane-chan (2010). Naka also portrayed cousins Makoto Konno and Akari Yoshiyama who are the protagonists in respectively the 2006 anime film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and the 2010 live action movie Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time,

Why this date

Riisa Naka appears on our October 18 calendar for 1989 as a birth entry.

October 18 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

  1. 1979Federal Communications Commission
  2. 1989Space Shuttle Atlantis
  3. 1989Riisa Naka
  4. 1991Azerbaijan
  5. 1992Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601
  6. 1993Nihilism (collection)
  7. 2003Bolivian gas war
  8. 20072007 Karsaz bombing
  9. 2019NASA Astronaut Corps
  10. 2019Social Outburst (Chile)
  11. 2019Santiago

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October 18 1989 — 37 years ago, on a Wednesday.

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