Yūko Odagiri (小田切 悠子, Odagiri Yūko, born February 16, 1987 in Ayase, Kanagawa, Japan), known by her stage name Yuu Kashii (香椎 由宇, Kashii Yuu), is a Japanese actress and model.
She married actor Joe Odagiri, who is exactly 11 years her senior, on February 16, 2008, the birthday the couple share.
Kashii's maternal grandfather is a European-American newspaper reporter, and thus her ethnic background is ¼ European.
[4] Kashii got her start in the entertainment business as an in-house model for the Japanese teen magazine mc Sister in 2001.
Her first acting role was in the movie adaptation of Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean in which she played the title character.