Nakashima Mika is a well-known Japanese singer, and also actress, whose album have reached the number one position several times in her homeland's Oricon charts. She has also appeared in movies, most notably portraying one of the two characters named Nana in the namesakes movies, which are based on the manga of the same title. She played the role of a singer. She was born the third of three girls in Hioki, Kagoshima in southern japan and dreamt of working in the fashion industry, but not as a model due to her being shorter than average. Earlier she had imagined herself a nurse. Nonetheless, she is blessed with a slim body and a smooth voice both of which would be instrumental in allowing her to pass an audition at age seventeen leading to an acting-cum-vocalist role for Tainted Love Song. By this time she had abandoned school and would not graduate. By 2002 she was awarded the New Artist Of the Year award at the Japan Gold Disc Awards. She was given roles in American films, namely two Resident Evils, first in 2010 as well where she acted and sang the theme song. In that same year she had a health scare involving her larynx, but she was soon back and even went blonde by 2012. Nakashima Mika married volleyball player Kunihiro Shimizu on December 25th, 2014. Mika loves white rice and mayonnaise, but not necessarily together and at the same time. - IMDb Mini Biography By: aghaemi
