Erika Sawajiri - Sexy Cute Japanese Model

Name : Erika Sawajiri
Profession : Actress, Model
Country : Japanese

Erika Sawajiri is half-japanese, having a Japanese father (death of illness) and an Algerian-French mother and is the youngest child of three brothers and sisters. Her father died of cancer when she was in her third year at junior high school and her second eldest brother died of a car accident when she was in first year at high school. Her father was the owner of racehorses, and owned sixteen race horses including Edonokoban etc.

Erika Sawajiri's mother manages the Mediterranean restaurant now; Sawajiri sometimes helps with it. Her specialty is horseback riding. She has been riding from childhood. Her name is derived from the flower’s name. (Ericaceae’s Erica) The opportunity which she entered the entertainment world was because she wanted to see Namie Amuro. It’s said that she has a frank character in contrast with her girlish appearance.

Erika Sawajiri also became one of Fuji TV's Visual Queens in 2002. On the NTV variety show The Yoru mo Hit Parade, she became a regular from April till late June, shortly after leaving the program for the CX news program Chou VIP Fortune no Tobira from mid-June till late August. In November, Erika Sawajiri was on the CBC variety show Bijou Dokyuu and TBS show B-1. She got her big break when she was cast in the TBS TV drama Hotman. Her most notable role was in 1 Litre of Tears in 2005 when she portrayed a girl with the degenerative disease spinocerebellar degeneration.

Erika Sawajiri first started her music career under the name "Kaoru Amane," the name of her character in her last drama, the TV adaptation of A Song to the Sun (Taiyou no Uta). The single went into number 1 in its second and fourth week. On July 16, 2007, Erika released her 'debut' single under only Erika entitled "Free". The single was immediately ranked on its first day as number one on the Oricon Charts. Oricon stated that she is the only artist in 39 years to get their first two single hit number one since Hiroko Yakushimaru in 1983.

She decided to enter the entertainment world because she wanted to meet singer Namie Amuro whom she idolizes, but finally, she passed Sony and her lover.