Kentaro Maeda

Kentaro Maeda (前田拳太郎) is a Japanese actor and a member of the theater group Gekidan Exile.

Maeda belongs to LDH Japan.

Early life and education
Kentaro Maeda was born on 6 September 1999, in Saitama Prefecture. He has a younger sister, Kokoro Maeda, who is a member of the Japanese idol girl group Hello! Project.

When Maeda was in kindergarten, he aspired to appear in Kamen Rider, which led to him aiming to become an actor. In addition, he graduated from Dokkyo University, Faculty of Economics.

Career
In 2018, after entering university, he was selected as one of the "BEST 30" at the 31st Junon Superboy Contest, but was rejected in the subsequent screening and initially gave up on his dream of becoming an actor. He later joined the university's ballroom dance club, however, the activities of the club were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was during that time that he thought about his future; he later decided to look for an agency to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor.

He started taking acting lessons at EXPG studio from around the summer of 2020.

In April 2021, Maeda appeared in the TV Tokyo drama Rules of Romantic Comedy ~ Complicated Girls and Younger Boys ~. On July 1 of the same year, he became affiliated with LDH JAPAN.

On 5 September 2021, He played the role of Ikki Igarashi/Kamen Rider Revi in the special effects TV drama Kamen Rider Revice, which aired from September 2021 to 28 August 2022.

Maeda joined Gekidan Exile on 1 November 2022.

Web drama

 * Kamen Rider Revice series
 * Kamen Rider Revice The Mystery (January 30, 2022 – February 27, Telasa) - as Ikki Igarashi / Kamen Rider Revi
 * Revice Legacy Kamen Rider Vail Episodes 1 and 5 (March 27, 2022 – May 22, 2022, Toei Special Effects Fan Club) - as Ikki Igarashi
 * TTFC Direct from the Market Theater Kamen Rider Revice (May 29, 2022, Toei Special Effects Fan Club) -
 * Kamen Rider Revice the Movie spin-off drama Birth of Chimera (July 22, 2022, Toei Special Effects Fan Club) - as Ikki Igarashi
 * Kamen Rider Juuga VS Kamen Rider Orteca (April 30, 2023 – May 7, 2023) - as Ikki Igarashi
 * My Wife Special Edition (June 21, 2023, FOD) - as Ran Hanazuma