Maria Ozawa (Japanese: 小澤 マリア, Hepburn: Ozawa Maria, born January 8, 1986) is a Japanese model and a former pornographic film actress of Canadian and Japanese ancestry. Early in her career as a model, she also used the name Miyabi (Japanese: みやび).
Ozawa was born in Hokkaido,
Japan. Her mother is Japanese and
her father is French Canadian. Ozawa graduated from the Christian
Academy in Japan[7][8] and
has asserted that she has a higher ability to read and write English than
Japanese. Ozawa played ice hockey daily and often sang karaoke after
classes. She has revealed that she became sexually active at the age of 13.
In 2002, when
she was 16, Ozawa debuted in a 30-second Japanese TV commercial for DARS Chocolate
alongside the Japanese pop duo KinKi Kids. Ozawa is featured sharing
chocolate with one of the two singers while secretly holding hands with the
othe.
