Aya Ueto was born in Nerima, Tokyo to a Hokkaidan father and Okinawan mother.[4] She has two brothers; Shun, who is two years older and Makoto, who is sixteen years older.[4] As a child, Ueto studied piano, modern ballet, swimming and rhythmics. She did not have ambitions to become an entertainer; she wanted to become a pre-school teacher.[1] However, at the age of twelve, after hearing about one of her friends' experience as an extra on a TV drama, she decided she too "wanted to appear on TV".[4]Unbeknownst to her daughter, Ueto's mother sent an application to the 7th All-Japan National Young Beauty Contest.
Aged only twelve, Ueto won the Judges' Special Choice Prize at the contest. She revealed later on that her real motivation for doing well was to "win the two million cash prize" because she "wanted to buy a house" for her family, however because what she won was an ad hoc prize decided that day, there was no cash prize. After her discovery, she joined the talent agency Oscar Promotion and started acting and singing lessons. In 1999, she obtained her first role in the film Satsujinsha Killer of Paraiso, in which her lines were entirely in English. Later that year she debuted with the girl group Z-1 and landed a recurring spot on the TV variety shows Kaishingeki TV! Utaemon and The Yoru mo Hippare. Aya_Ueto
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