About
Model and YouTube star with 1.2 million subscribers on her 杏/anne TOKYO channel. She posts cooking tutorials and covers songs she sings while playing the guitar. She is also an actress and shares behind-the-scenes content from the movie, "The Keeper of the Competition". Other videos are more like a blog, seeing her try a new exercise or working with a trainer in her home. She won International Model of the year at the 49th Fashion Editor Club of Japan awards and has won multiple awards for her performances in TV dramas and movies.
Before Fame
Her breakthrough modeling season was in 2007 when she was featured in runway shows for Tommy Hilfiger and Vivienne Tam, among others. She went on to walk in shows for Baby Phat and Marc Jacobs.
Trivia
Her real name is Anne Watanabe. She was appointed as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations World Food Program in 2022. She has an Instagram at _anne_official which has 650,000 followers. Here, she shares her art - usually little sketches of people or roughly drawn action scenes.
Family Life
She married actor Masahiro Higashide in 2015 and the two have twin daughters and one son. In 2020 the couple divorced. Her father and famous actor, Ken Watanabe, features in some of her YouTube videos, cooking or playing music with her. Her mother is Yumiko, Ken's first wife. She has two dogs, Kenji and Yamato.
Associated With
She is the face of Anna Sui's Secret Wish Magic Romance perfume.
