# Yua Shinkawa

Yua Shinkawa (新川 優愛, Shinkawa Yua, born December 28, 1993 in Saitama) is a Japanese actress and model.

## Career

Shinkawa made her screen debut in the television drama Chōnan no Kekkon in 2008, and made her film debut in the 2010 film Matataki in which Keiko Kitagawa played the lead role. In 2010, she won the Miss Magazine 2010. Next year, she won the Miss Seventeen 2011. She was one of four winners chosen from 7,157 applicants. Then she started model activities as an exclusive model in the Seventeen magazine. On October 30, 2013, she debut as a singer with her first single de-light. This song was used as the ending theme in the tokusatsu drama Shōgeki Gōraigan!! aired on TV Tokyo, and it reached 45th in Oricon chart.
In May 2015, it was announced that she would graduate from Seventeen, then subsequently contracted with the Non-no magazine. She appeared on the cover of the August 2015 issue of Non-no. From October 2015, she will play the heroine in the NTV's midnight drama Seishun Tantei Haruya.

## Personal life

On August 9, 2019, Shinkawa's agency announced that she had married her non-celebrity partner.
On November 17, 2022, she announced that she was expecting the couple's first child, who is due around May next year. And on May 10, 2023, she gave birth to the couple's first child.

## Filmography
### Films

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2010 | Piecing Me Back Together | Makiko Kirino (teen) |
| 2011 | Ike! Danshi Kōkō Engekibu | Mai Katsuragi |
| 2012 | Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu | Sakura Hibino |
| 2014 | Blue Spring Ride | Shūko Murao |
| 2016 | Unrequited Love | Mana |
| 2017 | Megamisama | |
| 2018 | My Teacher, My Love | Shūka Saimon |
| 2021 | What Happened to Our Nest Egg!? | Mayumi Gotō |
| 2022 | The Way of the Househusband | Kasumi |

### Television dramas

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2008 | Chōnan no Kekkon: Hanayome wa Batsuichi! Toshiue! Komochi!? | Aki Ōyama | |
| 2010 | Atsuizo! Nekogaya!! | | |
| 2011 | Hitori Janai | Nami Tachibana | |
| 2011 | Asu no Hikari o Tsukame | Moeko Sasaki | |
| 2011 | Ore no Sora Keiji-hen | Arisa Ijūin | Episode 5 |
| 2011 | Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters | Reika Saotome | |
| 2012 | Toshi Densetsu no Onna | Risa Toyama | Episode 4 |
| 2012 | Ataru | | Episode 6 |
| 2012 | Papadoru | Chiemi | Episode 5-6 |
| 2012 | GTO | Anko Uehara | |
| 2013 | 35-sai no Koukousei | Mitsuki Kudō | |
| 2013 | Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi Natsu no Tokubetsu-hen 2013 | Arisa Takeuchi | |
| 2013 | Shōgeki Gōraigan!! | Hitomi Kai | |
| 2013 | Jinsei Gokko | Mako | |
| 2014 | Yoru no Sensei | Kaede Tachibana | |
| 2014 | Keiji | Miyako Akiba | |
| 2014 | Water Polo Yankees | Rei Fujisaki | |
| 2014 | Shinano no Colombo Jiken File 2 | Yūko Noya | |
| 2015 | Ōedo Sōsamō 2015: Onmitsu Dōshin, Aku o Kiru! | Okitsu | |
| 2015 | Zeni no Sensō | Akane Madoka | |
| 2015 | Kekkon ni Ichiban Chikakute Tōi Onna | Yuri Sudō | |
| 2015 | Risk no Kamisama | Chinami Hōjō | |
| 2015 | Koinaka | Kazuha Sawada | |
| 2015 | Seishun Tantei Haruya | Miwa Nōmi | |
| 2016 | Gu.ra.me! | Yūko Tachibana | |
| 2016 | IQ246 | Hitomi Hōmonji | |
| 2017 | School Counselor | Nao Oomiya | |
| 2018 | Sick's Spec Saga | | |
| 2018 | Itsumademo Shiroi Hane | Rumi Kizaki | |
| 2020 | Guilty | Sayaka Ogino | |
| 2020 | Detective Yuri Rintaro | Ruriko Kusaka | |
| 2021 | The Grand Family | | |
| 2022 | Come Come Everybody | Sayoko Fujii | |