31 Facts About Maria Ozawa

Maria Ozawa is a Japanese model and a former pornographic film actress of Canadian and Japanese ancestry.

Maria Ozawa's mother is Japanese and her father is a French Canadian missionary.

Maria Ozawa played ice hockey daily and often sang karaoke after classes.

Maria Ozawa revealed she worked as a fast food server, a KTV bar attendant and a Japanese kindergarten school teacher.

In 2002, when she was 16, Maria Ozawa debuted in a 30-second Japanese TV commercial for DARS Chocolate alongside the Japanese pop duo KinKi Kids which featured Maria Ozawa sharing chocolate with one of the two singers while secretly holding hands with the other.

Maria Ozawa was introduced to the industry by a friend who appeared in AVs Maria Ozawa began by modeling in June 2005 under the name Miyabi for the pornographic site Shirouto-Teien.

Maria Ozawa was then signed by S1 No 1 Style, an AV studio that produces hardcore pornography.

Maria Ozawa remembers that she was so nervous during the filming of her first AV that she could not look at her co-star in the face.

At S1, Maria Ozawa subsequently appeared in one original video per month until February 2007.

Maria Ozawa was involved in several S1 compilation videos including the company's entry in the 2006 AV Open, a competition between Japanese AV studios for the best selling video.

Maria Ozawa has appeared in V-Cinema films, a photobook, and several glamour videos.

Maria Ozawa was on a 2007 episode of the Japanese variety show Megami no hatena on Nihon TV as part of a series with AV actresses telling why they went into AV work.

Maria Ozawa could be seen in 2007 performing twice at the Shinjuku striptease bar "Shinjuku New Art", for which she took dance lessons to prepare.

Maria Ozawa danced in a variety of outfits, including appearing as a belly-dancer, a geisha and a cowgirl.

In June 2008, Maria Ozawa changed studios , signing with a small studio, Ran-maru which released her first video with them on July 19,2008.

Maria Ozawa's professionalism impressed her co-workers and her role was expanded to include further scenes.

Maria Ozawa did a photoshoot for the Taiwanese version of FHM in May 2009.

Maria Ozawa followed up on her Shinjuku experience by starring in a cabaret show, "Tokyo Nights" at the Grand Lisboa Hotel in Macau from August 16 to September 6,2008, which featured several other Japanese performers.

XVN advertised in September 2008 about Maria Ozawa appearing in her first "uncensored" movies, which do not have the mosaic pixelation used to obscure the genitals in standard Japanese porn.

The first is titled If Maria Ozawa Is a Bubble Princess.

The movie's plot had to be altered and Maria Ozawa's scenes were all filmed in Tokyo.

In November 2009, articles in Weekly Playboy and The Tokyo Reporter reported that Maria Ozawa was registered with the delivery health club Tiger's Hole in Shibuya ward.

In November 2011, Maria Ozawa co-starred with Asami and AV actress Mahiro Aine in Naoyuki Tomomatsu's science fiction V-Cinema release Karei naru erogami-ke no ichizoku: Shinso reijo wa denki shitsuji no yume o miru ka, which was released with English subtitles as Erotibot.

Maria Ozawa was cast in the starring role for the erotic horror V-cinema feature Tokyo Species which was released on DVD in February 2012.

In October 2012, it was announced that Maria Ozawa planned to engage in the Mainland China entertainment market on a full-time basis and was to sign with the media company Beijing Tuopu Laiyin.

Maria Ozawa visited the Philippines in April 2015 and made a guest appearance on the Manila radio show, Magic 89.9's Boys Night Out.

Maria Ozawa was the June 2015 cover girl for FHM Philippines magazine.

Maria Ozawa returned to Manila in June 2015 for an autograph session for FHM at Resorts World Manila.

Maria Ozawa announced that she would be co-starring with Filipino actor Robin Padilla in the horror-action film Nilalang which was due to start shooting in August 2015.

Maria Ozawa said she intended to take acting lessons and learn some Tagalog for the film.

Maria Ozawa is an entrepreneur and operates multiple businesses in Japan and the Philippines.