# Natsuki Deguchi

Natsuki Deguchi (出口夏希, Deguchi Natsuki, born October 4, 2001) is a Japanese actress and model who is affiliated with Incent.

## Biography

Natsuki Deguchi was born on October 4, 2001, in China, to a Chinese mother and Japanese father. She has three elder sisters and one younger brother; they were raised in Tokyo, Japan.
Deguchi is bilingual; she can speak both Chinese and Japanese, with the former specifically being the Hokkien dialect from Fujian Province, which she generally only speaks at home.

## Career

While at Miyamasuzaka, Shibuya, with a friend, she was scouted by an Incent staff. Deguchi had previously been scouted by several other agencies before [to which she all declined], but admiring actress and model Mizuki Yamamoto, whom she heard was from the agency, she accepted the offer. She debuted in March 2018. Her first job after joining Incent was a photo shoot for the fast fashion brand "Shimamura". She applied and participated in the "Miss Seventeen 2018" sponsored by Shueisha, and showed off her fluent Chinese in an appeal video by the final candidates.
On August 23, 2018, it was announced at the "Seventeen Summer School Festival 2018" held at Pacifico Yokohama National Hall that six people, including Deguchi, had been selected as "Miss Seventeen 2018". With Suzu Hirose "graduating" as the exclusive model for the said magazine at the end of the event, the six Miss Seventeen candidates took part in an interview photo shoot.
Deguchi was selected as the "HARUTA [ja] IMAGE GIRL 2019", they made photo collages of various clothing items incorporating loafers that was then later published in Seventeen and on Haruta's official website. She starred in her first television appearance in the TV drama Cocoa, which aired in January 2019, it was a drama adaptation of the grand prize winning work of the 30th Fuji Television Young Scenario Awards [ja], with an omnibus format which follows three high school girls played by Sara Minami, Deguchi, and Riko Nagase as the main characters. In the second episode of the TV drama Love Sickness and the Guys in BS Nippon Television, which began airing in July of the same year, she appeared as the middle school classmate of the main character played by Ryuga Sato.
In April 2021, She appeared regularly in two dramas: Girl Gun Lady [ja] in Mainichi Broadcasting and Kotaro Lives Alone in TV Asahi.
In December 2020, she made her very first movie appearance as the young Isabella in the movie The Promised Neverland. On July 22, 2022, with the summer issue of Seventeen released, after four years, she "graduated" from being their exclusive model. On September 16 of the same year, she made another appearance in the movie Silent Parade, playing the role of Natsumi Namiki. She then became an exclusive model for women's fashion magazine Non-no for the December issue which was released on October 20.
She co-starred with Nana Mori in the original drama The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House scheduled to be released on Netflix on January 13, 2023, Deguchi plays the role of Sumire, marking her first lead role in a drama. Her first photo book entitled liberte was released on March 24, 2023.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2020 | The Promised Neverland | Young Isabella | |
| 2022 | Silent Parade | Natsumi Namiki | |
| 2023 | Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill | Chiyo | |
| 2024 | Drawing Closer | Haruna Sakurai | |
| 2024 | Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards | Honeko Akabane | |
| 2025 | I Have a Secret | Naoko Miki | Lead role |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2019 | Cocoa | Kaori Suzumori | Lead role |
| 2019 | Love Sickness and the Guys | Yuri Kuraki | Episode 2 |
| 2020 | Switch | Yen Tsutaya | |
| 2020 | Unsung Cinderella: Midori, The Hospital Pharmacist | Hasegawa Airi | Episode 7 |
| 2020 | Curry Song | Madoka Mori | Lead role |
| 2021 | Girl Gun Lady | Akiho Inada | |
| 2021 | Kotaro Lives Alone | Tōko Futaba | |
| 2022 | Inversion | Kotone Imabata | |
| 2022 | The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House | Sumire/Momohana | Lead role |
| 2022 | First Kiss Boys | Ririna Miyama | |
| 2022 | Crescendo | Fujita | |
| 2023 | My Worst Friend | Ema Honjo | |
| 2023 | 18/40: Unbreakable Bond of Dreams | Sena Nishimura | |
| 2023–24 | Ao Haru Ride | Futaba Yoshioka | Lead role; 2 seasons |
| 2024 | The Gift of Your Heart | Haruhi Asano | |
| 2024 | Blue Moment | Aya Kumeda | |

### Music video appearances

Year released, name of the artist, and title of the song :
| Year | Artist | Title |
| 2018 | Skirt | Distant Spring |
| 2020 | Hana Sekitori | Please give me now |
| 2020 | Crybaby | Nemonaire |
| 2021 | Transistory Project | Sparkler in love with a ghost |

### Commercials

* Vieris Co., Ltd. "KIREIMO" (March 10, 2021)
* Mister Donut Sweet Potato Do "Sweetness is oozing. Secret Potato Do" (August 27, 2021)
* Coca-Cola Japan Sokenbicha "Forward Me" (May 29, 2023)
* Ajinomoto Hondashi "Hondashi Shopkeeper" (September 19, 2023)