Rio(XIII)
- Actress
Tina Yuzuki also known as Rio, is a Japanese actress, singer and former AV idol born in Tokyo on October 29, 1986 who debuted as an AV actress in 2005, appearing in videos produced by the Max-A and S1 studios. After starring in AVs in various genres during her first year in the industry, she won an industry award as Best New Actress for 2006. Since late 2007, she has used the stage name of Rio. She officially announced her retirement in January 2016.Her father is Japanese, and her mother is Portuguese. She learned to speak Portuguese from her mother.
Rio made her adult video (AV) debut at age nineteen in the November 2005 release for Max-A's Calen label, Hot Wind, The director of Yuzuki's premier video uses the name 'Toshio,' and he continued to work with the actress in many of her early videos. Another collaboration between Yuzuki and director Toshio was in the March 2007 Max-A release, High School Uniform and Machine-Gun. Rio continued appearing in videos for Max-A about once a month throughout 2006 and 2007. For her early work, Yuzuki was named the Best New Actress at the 2006 AV Actress Grand Prix awards.
In October 2007 Max-A released Endless Ecstasy Fuck under the name Rio. After spending two years making videos exclusively for Max-A, Rio began performing for S1 No. 1 Style, part of Japan's largest porn company, the Hokuto Corporation, as early as February 2008 with the release of Risky Mosaic Rio, directed by Hideto Aki. She continued working for S1, producing one video per month, through the beginning of 2009 when she once again began performing for Max-A.
Rio began making videos for the AV studio IdeaPocket in March 2009 with the release of Rio's Everyday Carnival directed by Tadanori Usami. On Japanese TV, Rio played the role of Lisa in the first and last (11th) episodes of the TBS comedy Unubore deka (2010) which aired July-September 2010 and starred Tomoya Nagase, Tôma Ikuta and Mika Nakashima. That same year, she played a murder victim in the TBS mystery movie Keishicho Minamidaira Han - Nana Nin No Keiji.
