Maria Ozawa (Japanese: 小澤 マリア, Hepburn: Ozawa Maria, born January 8, 1986) is a Japanese actress of Canadian and Japanese ancestry, model, and a former AV idol. Early in her career as a model, she also used the name Miyabi (Japanese: みやび).
Ozawa was born in Hokkaido, Japan. Her mother is Japanese and her father a French-Canadian. Ozawa graduated from the Christian Academy in Japan, and has asserted that she has a higher ability to read and write English than Japanese. Ozawa played hockey on a daily basis, and often sang karaoke after classes. She revealed that she became sexually active at the age of 13 and learned the «48 sexual positions» from a book she purchased.
In 2002, when she was 16, Ozawa debuted in a 30-second Japanese TV commercial for DARS Chocolate alongside the Japanese pop duo KinKi Kids. Ozawa is featured sharing chocolate with one of the two singers while secretly holding hands with the other.