Maria Takagi is a Japanese TV and film actress and a former adult video star. Early in her career as a model, she also used the names Yukiko Hara and Rika Inoue.

Maria Takagi was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan on October 25, 1978. Using the name Yukiko Hara, she released a "gravure" photo album Nishi-Shinjuku Love Story in June 1998. She made an early movie appearance in the August 1998 mainstream film Yoi Yume Yakei, a love story directed by pink film director Shuji Kataoka. In November 1998, under the name Rika Inoue, she posed for the men's magazine Urecco and as Maria Takagi, issued a photobook of nude pictures titled Blue in December 2000. The next year, Takagi starred in the erotic fantasy Mermaid Girl written and directed by Kei Marimura which reached theaters in July 2001. Takagi also had a small part in the Kyoto Broadcasting System TV show HATU Vampire Syndrome directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu and broadcast on January 5, 2002. Later in 2002, she had a role in the erotic drama Yūrakuchō yakei which premiered in Ikebukuro in September 2002.

Takagi made her début as an adult video actress with the December 2002 release Super-Star for the Max-A Calen label. At the time of her début, AllAbout columnist Hiroshi Asuka commented on her reputation as an actress and her star quality. Six months later, the same writer described her as one of the top actresses in the adult field. It was announced in October 2003 that Takagi would play the "other woman" of a married man in the Fuji TV drama series Someone is next to you but that she would be continuing in her AV career. The Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported in 2003 that she was the highest paid AV actress in Japan.

In late 2003 Takagi was the winner of five awards at the Kuki Inc.-owned XCity's Adult Video Grand Prix Awards. The biggest adult site in Japan at that time, XCity conferred upon Takagi both the Best New Actress and Best Actress awards, and the Best Video Title, Best Conversation, and Prettiest Face awards of 2003. In December 2003, Takagi celebrated her first anniversary with the Max-A studio with the video Maria Perfect One Year!!. Her last adult video, Fin...Maria Takagi, was released in February 2004 completing the 15 videos that she had originally contracted for with Max-A.

Takagi's first feature film after her retirement from adult videos was the romantic horror comedy Ghost Shout with Saori Takizawa which was first shown in Tokyo theaters in December 2004. The next year, in addition to guest appearances on various TV shows, Takagi appeared in two horror films, the mock documentary Noroi where she played herself and the manga-based Tokyo Zombie directed by Sakichi Sato.

Takagi was a regular on the Tokai TV drama Keiyaku Kekkon, as the "femme fatale" Keiko Tokumaru, during its July to September 2005 run, and also on the Fuji TV hospital series Ns' Aoi playing the part of Nurse Nishi Tomoko from January to March 2006. In September 2007, she played Kasumi in the TV Asahi drama Kuroi taiyō '07 Supesharu, a TV special movie based on the Kuroi taiyō TV series.

Maria Takagi 是日本电视和电影女演员，也是前成人视频明星。在她模特生涯的早期，她还使用过原由纪子和井上梨花的名字。

Maria Takagi 于 1978 年 10 月 25 日出生于日本千叶县。1998年6月，她以原由纪子的名义发行了一本“凹版”相册《西新宿爱情故事》。1998 年 8 月，她在主流电影《Yoi Yume Yakei》中首次亮相，这是一部由粉红色电影导演片冈修二执导的爱情故事。1998年11月，她以井上梨花的名义为男性杂志《Urecco》摆姿势，并于2000年12月以玛丽亚·高木（Maria Takagi）的身份发行了一本名为《蓝色》的裸体照片集。次年，高木出演了由真村圭编剧和导演的情色奇幻电影《美人鱼女孩》，该片于 2001 年 7 月上映。高木还在京都广播系统电视节目《HATU吸血鬼综合症》中扮演了一小部分角色，该节目由友松直之执导，于2002年1月5日播出。2002年晚些时候，她在2002年9月在池袋首演的情色剧《Yūrakuchō yakei》中扮演了一个角色。

2002 年 12 月，Takagi 以 Max-A Calen 厂牌发行的 Super-Star 作为成人视频女演员首次亮相。在她首次亮相时，AllAbout 专栏作家 Hiroshi Asuka 评论了她作为女演员的声誉和她的明星品质。六个月后，同一位作家将她描述为成人领域的顶级女演员之一。2003年10月，高木宣布将在富士电视剧《有人在你旁边》中扮演已婚男人的“另一个女人”，但她将继续她的AV事业。日本报纸《每日新闻》在2003年报道说，她是日本收入最高的AV女演员。

2003 年底，Takagi 在 Kuki Inc. 旗下的 XCity 成人视频大奖赛中获得了五个奖项。作为当时日本最大的成人网站，XCity 授予了高木 2003 年最佳新人女演员奖和最佳女主角奖，以及最佳视频标题、最佳对话和最漂亮的面孔奖。2003 年 12 月，高木以视频《Maria Perfect One Year》庆祝了她在 Max-A 工作室的一周年纪念日!.她的最后一个成人视频，Fin...Maria Takagi 于 2004 年 2 月发布，完成了她最初与 Max-A 签约的 15 个视频。

高木从成人视频退休后的第一部故事片是与泷泽沙织合作的浪漫恐怖喜剧《鬼喊》，该片于 2004 年 12 月首次在东京影院上映。第二年，除了客串各种电视节目外，高木还出演了两部恐怖片，一部是她扮演自己的模拟纪录片《纪井》，另一部是佐藤咲吉执导的漫画《东京僵尸》。

2005 年 7 月至 9 月，高木在东海电视剧《Keiyaku Kekkon》中饰演“蛇蝎美人”Tokumaru 惠子，2006 年 1 月至 3 月，他还在富士医院连续剧 Ns' Aoi 中扮演护士 Nishi Tomoko。2007年9月，她在朝日电视台的电视剧《黑井太阳'07 Supesharu》中饰演霞，这是一部根据黑井太阳电视剧改编的电视特别电影。