Riisa Naka

is a Japanese actress. She won a Best New Talent award at the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival. She became well-known after acting in Hachi One Diver (2008) and later starred as Hana Adachi in Flunk Punk Rumble (2010). She also played two related characters from The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

 Personal life 

Naka has a Swedish grandfather, so she is one-quarter Swedish. She was named “Riisa” because her grandfather loved Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

She worked with actor Akiyoshi Nakao in Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo and again in the 2012 drama Tsurukame Josanin''. They started dating after filming ended in 2012.

In 2013, Naka and Nakao got married on March 21. Their first child, a son, was born on October 4, 2013, in Tokyo.

On April 11, 2025, she announced she left the talent agency Amuse to continue her career independently.

 References 

Category:1989 births
Category:Living people
Category:Japanese models
Category:21st-century Japanese actors