1. Maki Horikita was the vice-captain of their basketball club in junior high.
16 Facts About Maki Horikita
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Apart from modeling for photobooks, Maki Horikita has appeared in magazines and television advertisements.
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Maki Horikita is best remembered for her television commercials for Fujifilm and Lotte.
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Maki Horikita is a staple image endorser for Suntory and NTT DoCoMo.
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Maki Horikita had been cast in several drama series and movies since 2003 but her roles in Densha Otoko and Nobuta wo Produce became her breakthrough performances.
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Maki Horikita's promising portrayal of the titular character in Nobuta wo Produce won her a Best Supporting Actress award from Japan's Television Academy Awards.
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Maki Horikita was cast in the horror movie, One Missed Call: Final, the last installment of the One Missed Call franchise with agency colleague and best friend Meisa Kuroki and South Korean actor Jang Keun-suk.
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In January 2011, Maki Horikita starred in the movie adaptation of Into the White Night, a widely read novel that was adapted into a television drama in 2006 starring Haruka Ayase and Takayuki Yamada.
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In 2012, Maki Horikita was offered to lead the cast of an NHK asadora named Doctor Ume.
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When she was the host, Maki Horikita provided book recommendations to her listeners and called selected letter-senders to discuss the questions they wrote in their letters.
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Maki Horikita's stint was at ten in the evening, every third or fourth week of the month.
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Maki Horikita took turns with Erika Toda, Yui Aragaki, Chiaki Kuriyama, Nana Eikura, and Kii Kitano until she left the program in 2009.
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Maki Horikita had ventured into voice acting, debuting as an anime voice actress for one of the characters in Nobita and the Green Giant Legend 2008.
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Maki Horikita's highly featured project as a voice actress was for Professor Layton in which she provided the voice of the main character Luke.
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Maki Horikita dubbed the voice of the protagonist who is a young male fly who was determined to explore outer space.
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Maki Horikita gave birth to her first child in December 2016.