Lumina (루미나 /ルミーナ) is a multiracial Japanese and South Korean singer, musical actress and performer from Tokyo, Japan. She made her debut playing as Éponine in the South Korean Revival Tour of Les Misérables in 2023-2024 and the Japanese production of Les Misérables in 2024-2025.
She is of mixed race and was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother and an Indian father. Her real name is Rumina Nakamura (中村ルミーナ) and she worked as a child actress under Toho Musical Junior. She loved musicals in Japan since her childhood thanks to her mother who loved musicals. As a child, she was impressed by the musical Elisabeth, and when she was in middle school, she visited Korea and loved Mozart!, Dracula, the Musical, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Laundry, etc. She started studying Korean at the end of her third year of middle school. She speaks Korean at a native level, so much so that it can be hard to say that she has learned it since her adolescence. She said she came to study in Korea because she wanted to work as a musical actress there.
She studied in Seoul National University from fall 2019 and entered the Vocal Music Department as an international student and graduated in August 2023.
On October 11, 2023, she officially debuted as Éponine in the South Korean production of musical Les Misérables at the Busan Dream Theater. Before the opening, there were concerns about pronunciation problems due to the limitations of being a foreigner, but she received good reviews for her excellent acting and singing skills. Afterwards, her performances continued at Blue Square Shinhan Card Hall and Keimyung Art Center.
As of Late 2024, Lumina reprised her role as Éponine in the Japanese production of musical Les Misérables in Japan. With this, she became the third actor to have participated in both the Korean and Japanese productions of Les Misérables, following Yang Joon-Mo and Kim Hyun-Joon.
Theatre Roles[]
- Les Misérables (2023-2025) - Éponine (Played in both South Korea and Japan)
- Miss Saigon (2026-2027) - Kim (Played in Japan)
Trivia[]
- So far, Lumina is the only foreigner to take part in the South Korean Production. She performed as Éponine in the 2023-2024 South Korean Revival and Tour to great acclaim that she got to reprise the role in the 2024-2025 Japanese Tour in Japan. She is also one of the few South Korean Performers to do another production as well as the South Korean Production, others being Yang Joon-Mo, Kim Hyun-Joon and Na-Young Jeon.
- She and her Les Misérables Éponine and Miss Saigon Kim co-star Miisha Shimizu (who also debuted as Éponine together and shared it with her in the Japanese production of Les Misérables in the same year and as Kim in the Japanese production of Les Misérables the following year) were born two days apart from each other.
- Both she, Tomona Yabiku and Miisha Shimizu have shared the roles together when playing Éponine in Les Misérables in 2024-2025 and Kim in Miss Saigon in 2026-2027.