Rena Nounen is a Japanese actress and fashion model from Kamikawa, Hyogo Prefecture. She is best known for her lead roles on the NHK drama series Amachan (2013). She debuted as a fashion model in 2006 and was selected as the eleventh image character for Calpis in 2012. In 2012 she was chosen in an audition of 1953 women to play the heroine in the 2013 NHK Asadora Amachan, in which she plays a high school girl who decides to become an ama, or female shell diver, as well as an idol. Amachan was a ...