# Alan Shirahama

Alan Shirahama (白濱亜嵐, Shirahama Aran, born 4 August 1993) is a Japanese performer, actor, and DJ who is a member of Exile and also the leader of the Japanese all-male dance and music group Generations from Exile Tribe. Alan is represented with LDH.

## Early life

Shirahama was born on 4 August 1993 to a Filipino mother and a Japanese father. He has a younger brother, Ryu, a former trainee of SM Entertainment. He participated in NCT Lastart but ultimately was not chosen for the final lineup. Alan also has an elder sister, Loveli, who is a fashion model and television personality.
In 2008, he started attending Matsuyama's EXPG (Exile Professional Gym).

## Career
### 2009–2012: Pre-debut

In April 2010 Shirahama became a member of Gekidan EXILE (Exile Theatrical Company) which he withdrew from after getting selected as Generations' candidate member in July 2011.
In March 2012, he graduated from Hinode High School; and he became an official member of the group in April 2012.
He played his first lead role in NTV's drama Sugarless starring Gaku Shiiba whose theme song "Brave it Out" was decided as Generations' major debut song.

### 2014–present: Breakthrough

In January 2014, Hiro appointed Shirahama to be the leader of Generations.
On 27 April 2014, Shirahama was one of five people who passed the final audition to join Exile as a performer, making him currently a member of both Exile and Generations.
On 31 October 2015, he began his career as a DJ on the stage of "U・F・O~Electric Halloween~ MIXed by PKCZ".

## Filmography
### Movies

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2014 | 7 Days Report | Ryota Maesawa | Lead role |
| 2016 | Road to High & Low | Bernie | |
| 2016 | High & Low: The Movie | Bernie | |
| 2017 | Daytime Shooting Star | Daiki Mamura | |
| 2017 | High&Low The Movie 2 / End of Sky | Bernie | |
| 2017 | High&Low The Movie 3 / Final Mission | Bernie | |
| 2020 | Kizoku Kourin -Prince of Legend- | Shintaro Ando | Lead role |
| 2020 | The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Princess | Andrew Hu | |
| 2020 | One in a Hundred Thousand | Ren Kiritani | Lead role |
| 2023 | Sana | Himself | Lead role |

### Short films

| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| 2018 | Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project-"Aeiou" | Hikaru Azumi | Lead role | |

### TV dramas

| Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes |
| 2011 | Rokudenashi Blues | Yoneji Sawamura | NTV | |
| 2012 | GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka | Seiya Dojima | Fuji TV | |
| 2012 | GTO: Autumn Demon Rampage Special | Seiya Dojima | Fuji TV | 2 hours special |
| 2012 | Sugarless | Gaku Shiiba | NTV | Lead role |
| 2013 | GTO Special 2 ~ New Year Special | Seiya Dojima | Fuji TV | 2 hours special |
| 2013 | GTO Special 3 ~ Graduation Special | Seiya Dojima | Fuji TV | 2 hours special |
| 2014 | We Are All Already Dead ♪ | Ewan Ichinose | TBS | Lead role |
| 2015 | High & Low The Sory Of S.W.O.R.D.~ | Bernie | NTV | Episodes 4 and 10 |
| 2016 | High & Low Season 2 | Bernie | NTV | |
| 2016 | Night Hero Naoto | | TV Tokyo | Ending dance |
| 2019 | The King of Novels | Toyotaka Yoshida | Fuji TV | Lead role |
| 2019 | Kizoku Tanjou -Prince Of Legend- | Shintaro Ando | NTV | Lead role |
| 2020 | M: Beloved One | Sho Rukawa | TV Asahi | |
| 2021 | Nakuna Kenshui | Ryuji Ameno | TV Asahi | Lead role |
| 2023 | Cinderella of Midsummer | Mamoru Yamauchi | Fuji TV | |

### Web Dramas

| Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes | Ref |
| 2013 | We are all already dead ♪ | Ewan Ichinose | NOTTV | Lead role | |
| 2018 | Happy-Go-Lucky! | Takuya | GYAO! | Lead role | |

### Stageplay

| Date | Title | Role |
| 2010.03 | Gekidan Exile Junction #1 "Night Ballet" | Yuki |
| 2010.06 | Gekidan Exile Hanagumi's 3rd show "Kill The Black" | |
| 2010.12 | Gekidan Exile Hanagumi × Kazegumi's joint show "Rokudenashi Blues" | Yoneji Sawamura |
| 2011.09 | Closet (reading) drama "Moshimo Kimi ga." | |
| 2011.12 | Closet (reading) drama "Moshimo Kimi ga. -Last Christmas" | |
| 2020.02 | Reading drama Book Act "Hero yo yasuraka ni nemure/Sleep peacefully, hero" | |

### TV shows

| Year | Title | Network | Notes |
| 2014 | Wao | Fuji TV | |
| 2018 | Mezamashi TV | Fuji TV | Monthly Entertainment Presenter (June 2018) |

### Voice Acting

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2014 | Mattsu to Yanma to Moburi-san 2 | As himself |
| 2017 | High & Low g-sword Animation DVD Special Edition | Bernie |

### Advertisements

| Years | Title |
| 2014 | ABC-Mart "adidas CLIMACOOL" |
| 2015 | Moist Diane "Extra Shine" |
| 2015 | Samantha Vega |
| 2016 | SoftBank "Sponavi Live" |
| 2016, 2017 | Rohto Pharmaceutical "Mr. Oxy" |
| 2017 | Samantha Vega × Hirunaka no Ryuusei |
| 2017 | Youfuku no Aoyama "Lost and Found" |
| 2018 | Samantha Thavasa Japan Limited |
| 2018 | Youfuku no Aoyama "Aoyama Prestige Technology" |
| 2019 | Samantha Thavasa 25th |

### Music videos

| Year | Artist | Title | Ref. |
| 2011 | Sandaime J Soul Brothers | Fighters | |
| 2019 | Samantha Thavasa Family | "ONE -we are one-" | |

### Other

| Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
| 2012 | Himitsu-Goto Up / down (Shueisha Pinky Bunko) | Cover model | Up Down |

## Photobook

| | Release date | Title | Ref. |
| 1st | 21 November 2017 | Timbre | |

## Producing

| Year | Title | Artist | Ref. |
| 2018 | "Melody" (Lyric Video) | Exile | |
| 2019 | "Shinsei" (Sound production) | Generations | |