Nana Eikura is a Japanese Model, Actress, and Cccasional Radio Show Host. She was born on born February 12, 1988.
She was born in Izumi, Kagoshima, Kyushu island and grew up in Sagamihara, Kanagawa. She was scouted in front of 109 in Shibuya, Tokyo when she was in junior high school. During her middle-teenage years, Nana modeled in several fashion magazines, mainly in Seventeen.
During the 2000s, Eikura featured in Seventeen along with Emi Suzuki and several others. Eikura later began appearing in various advertisements and collections in the mid 2000s and has appeared in many TV advertisements. Despite a model turning into an actress is usually considered a "loser" in modeling, Eikura, a successful model, began acting in the mid 2000s. Since around 2007, Eikura has intentionally gained nearly 12 kg (27 pounds).
In the mid-2000s she sometimes nicknamed herself the "Spider", like "Spider Eikura", after her top favorite MMA fighter, who has too thin-and-long arms, Anderson "The Spider" Silva. She was also given the nickname relating to fighting sports "Samoan Eikura" because of her facial resemblance to Mark Hunt and Samoa Joe. In 2006 soon after PRIDE Critical Countdown Absolute, Eikura, under the nickname Samoan Eikura, interviewed Mark Hunt on the Tokai TV show The MMA Kingdom where Hunt said "I've never seen such a skinny Samoan".
Eikura first worked with Masami Nagasawa in 2006 and since then she has appeared in 8 TV commercials along with Nagasawa (currently in 2010). Nagasawa has frequently described Eikura as an "incredibly" nice person, as many models whom Nagasawa has worked with were "incredibly" arrogant to her, mocking her, and some of them even physically assaulted her. This was backed up by Rosa Kato and Asami Mizukawa who have worked with many models. Kato said that Nagasawa is right and Eikura is not a typical model because Eikura at least doesn't refer to an actress as a fat screen hooker or something like that.
Eikura has also appeared in ads for non-fashion / non-cosmetic stuffs, including Coca-Cola, the Japanese Red Cross, Japan Post Service, Johnson & Johnson's Japanese branch, KDDI's au, Lion, and Nintendo's videogame Rhythm Heaven. She has also appeared in non-fashion magazines as a model. The latest one is an appearance on the NASCAR-orientated magazine Racing On along with Emi Suzuki's protégé Nozomi "The No Mercy" Sasaki.
Eikura can play shamisen and has a diploma, and can sing in fluent Ryukyu language that she learned from her modeling colleagues who were from Okinawa. She once covered Rimi Natsukawa's song Nada Sōsō on a Kinki Kids' TV show in 2007.
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