Shioli Kutsuna

Shioli Kutsuna (Japanese: 忽那汐里, Hepburn: Kutsuna Shiori, born 22 December 1992) is a Japanese-Australian actress, known for her role as Ran Mori in Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge!, Minami Maho in Beck (2010), Haru/Harumi in 125 Years Memory (2015), and Yukio in Deadpool 2 (2018) and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). She plays Mitsuki in the Apple TV series Invasion (2021). In 2014, she won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Newcomer of the Year.

Early life

Kutsuna was born in Killarney Heights, Sydney. She lived in Australia until the age of 14 before moving to Japan to pursue a career as a model and actress.

Career

In 2006, Kutsuna won the Judge's Prize at the 2006 Japan Bishōjo Contest.

In 2009, she had her first major starring role. She played the part of Tsugumi Nitobe in 7 Mannin Tantei Nitobe (70 000 People Detective Nitobe), an ordinary college student who has 70,000 friends on the Internet and solves difficult cases by using their brains.

In 2011, she was cast to play Ran Mori in a special drama for the live-action of Detective Conan, a popular manga series written by Gosho Aoyama. She replaced Tomoka Kurokawa, who played Ran in the previous specials in 2006 and 2007.

In 2012, she was named Best New Actress of 2011 by film magazine Kinema Junpo.

In 2015, she appeared in two leading roles as Haru/Harumi in the Japanese-Turkish co-production 125 Years Memory.

She played mutant Yukio in the 2018 film Deadpool 2, the eleventh installment of the X-Men film series. She reprised the role in the 2024 Marvel Cinematic Universe sequel Deadpool & Wolverine.

In 2021, she appeared in the first season of Apple TV series Invasion, and the second season which premiered in August 2023.

In 2022, it was revealed that she will appear in Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.

Personal life

In 2011, together with actresses Mayuko Kawakita and Riko Narumi, Kutsuna graduated from Horikoshi High School.

In 2013, she dropped out of college before starting her third year, for the sake of her career. Her agency said: "It really was difficult for her to work while going to school. She had a hard time attending classes due to her work in dramas. She accepted this and dropped out. She will now be focusing on her acting career".

Kutsuna is fluent in both English and Japanese.