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Ellie Toyota (豊田 エリー) is a Japanese actress.

Career
While in her first year of junior high school, Toyota was scouted in Shibuya and joined Stardust Promotion.

In 2003, under the name Erika Ward, Toyota made her musical debut as a member of Snappeas, an idol group formed as image girls for Odaiba Adventure King 2003.

Toyota made her film debut in A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth in 2006. She also starred in ''Erin's Challenge! She Can Speak Japanese'' as the titular Erin, a foreign exchange student.

In 2007, Toyota appeared in a commercial for the Mr. Children album B-Side as well as the promotional video for the song "Hibiki" from the album.

Toyota appeared in the Ad Council Japan and NHK joint campaign commercial "Panashi no Hanashi" in 2009.

In 2013, Toyota was the cover model for the first issue of Hakusensha's kodomoe, released on November 7. She appeared in Tamagawa Ward Office of the Dead in 2014 as Nagisa Ono.

Toyota made her stage debut as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, directed by Takahiro Fujita at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, in 2016.

In 2019, Toyota appeared in Although Stock Is Limited, written and directed by Takuya Katō, with the Tagumi Theatre Company.

In 2021, Toyota appeared in Light House by Mum and Gypsy, performed at the opening series of the Naha Cultural Arts Theatre Nahart, a newly opened theatre in Okinawa Prefecture. That year, Toyota also had her first overseas performance with A la marge, written and directed by Tomohiro Maekawa, which was invited to the Festival d'Automne in Paris.

On March 21, 2023, Toyota announced that she had joined a new agency, loca.

Personal life and education
Toyota was born on January 14, 1989, in Tokyo, Japan, to an English father and Japanese mother. In 2005, Toyota transferred to Horikoshi High School. There, she met Yuya Yagira, whom she dated secretly, as male-female relationships were against school rules. In 2010, they submitted their marriage registration on Toyota's 21st birthday and held the wedding ceremony at Meiji Shrine a day later on January 15. On May 14, she announced that she was pregnant with her first child; she gave birth to her daughter on October 13.