Maria Ozawa is a Japanese model and a former pornographic film actress of Canadian and Japanese ancestry. Early in her career as a model, she also used the name Miyabi.

Ozawa was born in Hokkaido, Japan. Her father is French Canadian and her mother is Japanese. 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 ice hockey daily, and often sang karaoke after classes. She has revealed that she became sexually active at the age of 13.