Haruka Kudo

工藤遥 (Kudo Haruka) is a Japanese actress and former pop singer. Not to be confused with the voice actress with the same romanised name. She was a 10th generation member of Morning Musume. under Hello! Project and a member of the SATOYAMA movement unit Triplet. She was first introduced as a member of Hello Pro Egg at the 2010 Hello! Project Shinjin Kouen 3gatsu ~Yokohama GOLD!~ concert in March 2010. She joined Morning Musume. in September 2011, and graduated from both the group and Hello! Project on December 11, 2017 to pursue acting. Upon her graduation from Morning Musume., she landed her first major role as an actress as Hayami Umika / Lupin Yellow in the 42nd Super Sentai series, Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger. And she is currently acting on the TV show, Romansu boufuu-iki as of 2022.