Rina Uchiyama (内山理名 Uchiyama Rina, born November 7, 1981 in Minamiashigara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actress and idol.
Rina Uchiyama was first discovered in her hometown in Kanagawa prefecture by her current talent agency Sweet Power at the age of 15. Scouts for the agency had been going around Kanagawa looking for future potential talents when they heard of a "cute girl" working at a local bakery store to which young boys flocked for a glimpse of her. Promptly, the scouts arrived at Uchiyama Rina’s house, asking for her snapshot. Rina had been napping at the time, and before she knew it, she had been signed by the agency and in 1998, moved to Tokyo to launch her geinoukai(Japanese entertainment) career.
