Akari Hayami

Akari Hayami is a Japanese actress, model and former idol singer known as a former member and sub-leader of the female musical group Momoiro Clover Z. Her image color in the band was blue.

Akari Hayami was scouted near her graduation from elementary school and was signed to the agency Stardust Promotion. On November 23, 2008, together with Yukina Kashiwa and Ayaka Sasaki she was added to her agency's girl group Momoiro Clover Z. The group existed since 2008 and its name signified that they were "innocent girls who wanted to spread happiness".At the time, group performed on the walkways in Yoyogi Park in Shibuya, Tokyo, but with the release of its first indie single in summer of the next year the group quickly rose to fame. On January 16, 2011, at a launch event for the single "Mirai Bowl", set for release on March 9, Akari announced that she would leave the group in April. The announcement came sudden to the 500 fans that were present. As for group leader Kanako Momota, she only learned about it three days prior. Her last concert was to be held on April 10 at Nakano Sun Plaza. As Akari recalled later, one year after leaving group, she entered entertainment industry with the aim to be an actress and a model. In her days in the group, she struggled with being known as an idol. Rather than "idol Akarin", she wanted to be "actress and model Akari Hayami".

After leaving the group, Akari Hayami was mainly active as a fashion magazine model. She also starred in the Universal Music Japan cheer-leading movie Cheerfu11y (2011), which came out on October 22, 2011.

In November 2012, Momoiro Clover Z was invited to the Kohaku Uta Gassen, an annual New Year's Eve music show on NHK. To qualify for Kohaku had been the girls' dream and common goal as a group also when Akari was member. She congratulated her former band-mates in her blog and expressed the desire to appear at Kohaku together with them. In homage to her wish, group performed the song Ikuze! Kaito Shojo in Kohaku with the version that included her name on it.

In May 2014, Akari Hayami appeared in her first leading role in a feature film called My Pretend Girlfriend (2014).

In 2015, she was selected as the seventh assistant for the talk show "A-Studio" (TBS TV), hosted by Shofukutei Tsurube, and served until March 2016 She played her first starring role in a drama series in "Ramen Daisuki Koizumi San (2015)" (Fuji TV), which started June 27.

In 2016, she played her first starring role on stage in "Dream Play - Dream Play"

In 2017 she participated in the Live Action Gintama Live Action the Movie (2017) based on the popular Manga of the same name.

On July 22, 2018, she announced that she would marry a company employee in his early 30s by the end of the year, and held an engagement press conference the following day on July 23. At the press conference, she revealed that she agreed to marry him after proposing for the fourth time; on December 10, she announced through her agency that she had submitted the marriage certificate.

In May 2020, he became an ambassador for the fermented skincare "SophisTance" together with the members of Momoiro Clover Z. On May 24, he appeared with the members of Momoiro Clover Z in a live broadcast on the brand's YouTube channel. members of Momoiro Clover Z on the brand's YouTube channel. She announced during the broadcast that she was pregnant with her first child and expected to give birth in the fall, and reported the birth of her first child, a baby girl, on SNS at the end of October.

In 2022 she appears in the film Shin Ultraman (2022), based on the famous Japanese superhero Ultraman.