Quick answer
Who is Kiko Mizuhara?
Kiko Mizuhara (born 15 October 1990 in Dallas, United States) is an American-Japanese actress, singer and model (1990). Tracked for Dior and major Japanese and international campaigns. Kiko Mizuhara is followed on Global Watch, outside the numbered Global 50.
At a glance
How old and how tall is Kiko Mizuhara?
Kiko Mizuhara was born on 15 October 1990 in Dallas, United States, which makes Kiko 35 as of 5 October 2026. Kiko Mizuhara’s recorded height is 168 cm (5 ft 6 in), according to Wikidata. Agency measurements can differ slightly.
- Born
- 15 October 1990 (age 35)
- Birthplace
- Dallas, United States
- Height
- 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
- Nationality
- Japan
- Disciplines
- Campaigns, Cultural
- Cast Index status
- Global Watch (unnumbered)
- @i_am_kiko
Birth date, birthplace and height from Wikidata (Q1051455), retrieved . Agencies from the listed sources. Profile updated .
The perspective
What is Kiko Mizuhara known for?
Dior and major Japanese and international campaigns
The published assessment
Is Kiko Mizuhara on the Global 50?
Kiko Mizuhara is followed on Global Watch, outside the numbered Global 50.
Each pillar reflects an editorial assessment of the published record. The weighted rating belongs to the snapshot.
Index Rating · Editorial pillars · Medium confidence · evidence reviewed
84.5
- Runway · 40%
- 81
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81 / 100 - Campaigns · 30%
- 87
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87 / 100 - Editorial · 20%
- 86
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86 / 100 - Cultural aura · 10%
- 88
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88 / 100
Evidence behind the assessment
- Dior and major Japanese and international campaigns.
- Eligibility reviewed against work and public visibility in the 2021–2026 window; booking-level citations are maintained in the linked industry and biographical records.
New work and corrections can change the assessment. A profile’s confidence label describes the depth of its source review.
Sources to explore
The runway record
Which shows has Kiko Mizuhara walked?
No show-by-show walks for Kiko Mizuhara are on the Cast Index ledger yet; the sources above give the career record.
A source-linked selection across seasons, rather than a complete booking history. Open the source for the original record.
A show-by-show record has not yet been added. The source links above provide the available career context.
Career & background
The story so far.
Biography last reviewed .
Early life
Audrie Kiko Daniel, known professionally as Kiko Mizuhara, was born on 15 October 1990 in Dallas, Texas, to American father Todd Mason Daniel and Zainichi Korean mother Yae Toyama. The family moved to Tokyo when she was 2 and later to Kobe; her parents divorced when she was 13, and she later moved to Tokyo alone at 16 to pursue modelling. She won a Seventeen magazine audition contest at 12 in 2002, becoming an exclusive Seventeen model for three years, and became an exclusive model for ViVi magazine in 2007.
Runway, campaigns and acting, 2010–2014
Mizuhara made her acting debut in the 2010 film Norwegian Wood, and in 2012 fronted a Chanel campaign photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for "The Little Black Jacket," the same year she won at the Japan Fashion Leader Awards. Her international runway debut came in Paris in 2014, at Olympia Le Tan’s Spring/Summer show, followed by Nasir Mazhar in London and Jeremy Scott’s Moschino debut in Milan. That year she was named Asian Fashion Icon of the Year at the SOHU Fashion Awards, joined the Business of Fashion 500, and won Model of the Year at the Fashion Editors Club of Japan Awards.
Beauty ambassadorships and business, 2016–2021
Mizuhara founded her own company, Kiko Co., Ltd. (Office Kiko), in 2016, and walked New York Fashion Week for Alexander Wang’s Spring/Summer 2018 show the following year. In 2018 she was appointed Dior’s first Asian brand ambassador and joined the Coach family. Her film and television work has continued alongside modelling, including Attack on Titan: End of the World (2015), in which she played Mikasa Ackerman, and Netflix’s Ride or Die (2021).
Recent record, 2024–2026
Mizuhara appeared in the 2024 film Adabana, and fronted a Vogue Japan cover and editorial in June 2025, alongside multiple Paris Fashion Week appearances for Saint Laurent. She attended the 79th Cannes Film Festival in May 2026. Her campaign roster across her career has included Diesel, Reebok, Kitsuné, Tiffany & Co. and Shiseido.
At a glance
Quick facts.
- Born Audrie Kiko Daniel, 15 October 1990, in Dallas, Texas, to an American father and a Zainichi Korean mother; moved to Japan at age 2 and later naturalized as a Japanese citizen
- Won a Seventeen magazine audition contest at 12 in 2002, becoming an exclusive Seventeen model for three years
- Became Dior’s first Asian brand ambassador in 2018
- Played Mikasa Ackerman in the 2015 film Attack on Titan: End of the World
- Won Model of the Year at the Fashion Editors Club of Japan Awards and was named Asian Fashion Icon of the Year at the SOHU Fashion Awards in 2014
- Founded her own company, Kiko Co., Ltd. (Office Kiko), in 2016
