Mari Yamamoto is a Japanese actress and journalist. Born in Japan, Yamamoto would move with her family to London in 1991, before eventually returning to live in Tokyo in 1994 at the age of 8. She described the experience as akin to being an outsider, where she'd be considered "very Japanese everywhere in the world" but "wasn’t quite Japanese enough" in Japan itself. Yamamoto would study international relations at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where she would obtain her Bachelor of Arts, before moving to New York City to study method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. During this time she was also part of The Bats acting company at The Flea Theater. She returned to Tokyo following this, and began working in journalism, writing articles for The Daily Beast alongside American journalist Jake Adelstein. Adelstein's book Tokyo Vice was being adapted into a television series for HBO Max, which would see Yamamoto recruited to work on the show's writing staff. She would become a producer on the series in its second season. In 2022, Yamamoto starred in a recurring role in the Apple TV+ series Pachinko as Hana. That same year she would join the cast of Apple's Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. In March 2024, she was cast to star opposite Brendan Fraser in the film Rental Family. 야마모토 마리(1986년생, Tokyo, Japan) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 렌탈 패밀리: 가족을 빌려드립니다, ジーマーミ豆腐, Surfer's Paradise가 있으며, 그 외에도 '모나크: 레거시 오브 몬스터즈' - Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, '파친코' - Pachinko, 케이트, Story Game, Allure, Δε θέλω να γίνω δυσάρεστος, αλλά πρέπει να μιλήσουμε για κάτι πολύ σοβαρό, Bourek, Coin Lunch, The Last Dream 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2025년 렌탈 패밀리: 가족을 빌려드립니다에서 Aiko Nakajima 역을 맡았다. 2023년 '모나크: 레거시 오브 몬스터즈' - Monarch: Legacy of Monsters에서 Keiko Randa 역을 맡았다. 2022년 미녀 데몬 검객에서 Oiwa 역을 맡았다.