Acting Career
In 2007, Maeda played the sub-leading role in the movie "Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata" (「あしたの私のつくり方」?), which was her first performance as an actress. She started shooting this film on 20 August 2006 and finished it in late September. After that, she landed various TV drama roles, including lead roles in the dramas "Majisuka Gakuen" and "Q-10".
Maeda, along with fellow AKB member Minegishi Minami, starred in Moshidora (2011), a film released on 4 June 2011, marking her first lead role as a movie actress. Moshidora is a movie about how a weak high school baseball team's caretaker named Minami Kawashima that Maeda plays leads the team to the National High School Baseball Championship by learning strategies from Peter Drucker's business book Management.
In 2011, she played Mizuki Ashiya in Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, a remake of the popular 2007 drama series.
In early 2012, she played Ihara Haruka, a child of the Ihara family in the drama "Saiko no Jinsei". The drama starred Yamashita Tomohisa. Maeda's role as Haruka was Yamapi's younger sister, a loving girl with a few physical disabilities due to physical damage as a child.
Maeda also starred in the film "Kueki Ressha" (2012), which opened in theatres nationwide on 14 July 2012.
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