Serena Motola

Serena Motola (モトーラ世理奈) is a Japanese fashion model, actress and singer. She signed with Box Corporation at age 16, and made her runway debut at the Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo F/W 2017 show. She is best known for being the face of Soen since 2017.

Motola landed her first feature film role in the coming-of-age drama Girls' Encounter (2018). She received critical acclaim in 2020 for her lead role in the drama film Voices in the Wind, for which she won the Kinema Junpo Award for Best New Actress, and was nominated for several other accolades.

Early life and education
Serena Motola was born on October 9, 1998 in Tokyo, Japan and is an only child. Her father is an American national of Italian descent, and her mother is Japanese. Her parents met in the United States, where her mother was working as a Japanese language teacher at the time before moving to Tokyo together. As a child, Motola trained in hip-hop dance, all throughout elementary school and high school. After graduating from high school, Motola enrolled at Bunka Fashion College to study fashion marketing and distribution. She dropped out after her second year to focus on her modelling career.