Marumi Shiraishi (born November 27, 1962) is an actress and media personality

Tarento

is a Japanese rendering of the English word "talent" and is used as a catch-all term for mass media personalities who regularly appear on television. Detractors of the phenomenon have referred to it in an English sense as "famous just for being famous" because many that fall into this career line...

 from Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

, Japan

Japan

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. Her real name is Mitsue Minamikawa (南川 光江) and her maiden name was Matsuda (松田).

In 1978, Shiraishi auditioned for the part of leading man Hiromi Go

Hiromi Go

is a Japanese singer, part of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. His real name is .In the 1970s, he was called "New Big Three" with Goro Noguchi and Hideki Saijo. He belonged to Johnny & Associates, but later left the agency...

's sweetheart on the TBS

Tokyo Broadcasting System

, TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan. It is a parent company of a television network named and radio network named ....

 TV drama, Mū ichozoku and debuted as the girl in "Izakaya Hiromi."

Not limited only to television, Shiraishi was a multifaceted idol

Japanese idol

In Japanese culture, are media personalities in their teens and early twenties who are considered particularly attractive or cute and who will, for a period ranging from several months to a few years, regularly appear in the mass media, e.g...

 active also as a singer, movie actress, and radio personality.

Later, in 2002, she changed the spelling of her stage name from "まるみ" to the identically pronounced "マル美" and has been hosting a TV shopping program, living frugally on Ikinari! Ōgon densetsu, and appearing as a TV travelogue reporter.

As a hobby, she plays in a badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

 club and is said to be very good.

Appearances

• Taiyou ni hoero! (TV) guest appearance
• Kotoshi no botan wa yoi botan (1983) (TV)
• Stewardess monogatari (1983) (TV)
• Getsuyō drama land (TV)
• Kaseifu ha mita! (1990-2004) (TV)
• Family
  Family (2001 film)
  -Cast:*Kenichi Endo*Kojiro Hongo*Kouichi Iwaki as Hideshi Miwa*Taishu Kase as Takeshi Miwa*Ryuji Katagiri*Kazuya Kimura as Takashi Miwa*Toshiya Nagasawa*Yoko Natsuki*Marumi Shiraishi*Rikiya Yasuoka-Other credits:*Produced by**Naoki Abe - producer...
  
  (2001)
• Bright Future
  Bright Future
  is a 2003 Japanese film written and directed by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Tadanobu Asano and Joe Odagiri. It was entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :...
  
  (2003)
• Morning Salad (TV variety show)

External links

• Marumi Shirashi's official home page (Japanese, created by Marumi herself)