Kento Yamazaki (山﨑 賢人, Yamazaki Kento, born September 7, 1994 in Itabashi, Tokyo) is a Japanese actor and model. Best known for playing L in television series Death Note (2015), as well as starring in films L DK (2014), Heroine Shikkaku (2015) and Orange (2015). He is under the Japanese talent Agency Stardust Promotion.
Kento Yamazaki was born in Tokyo, from a middle class family. He lives with his father, mother and older brother. As a child, Kento is an agile kid and love eating. Eventhough his body was thin, he admitted that he is a big eater. He also revealed several times in public that he loved playing soccer and is really good at it. He claimed in interviews that as a child he dreamed of being a soccer player, and if he did not become an actor he will become a professional soccer player or coach of the national team. The first modelling offered came during the third year of his junior high school when he was scouted by his current agency at Takeshita Dori (Harajuku) while on his way home after a soccer match. Worked as a model for magazine “Pichi Lemon” from 2009 to 2011, before entering acting world.