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Pages in category "American actresses of Japanese descent" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Bryan Mantia, contemporary rock drummer and composer who was a drummer for bands such as Primus (band), Guns N' Roses, Praxis, and Godflesh; mother is Japanese-American; Lily Mariye, actress , filmmaker; Money Mark, producer and musician, best known for his collaborations with the Beastie Boys from 1992 until 2011; father is Japanese-Hawaiian
Miiko Taka (高美以子, Taka Miiko) (born Miiko Shikata [1] July 24, 1925 – January 4, 2023) was an American actress, popular for her film and television roles from the late 1950s until the early 1980s. Her best known role was as an elegant Japanese dancer starring with Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara.
Tamlyn Tomita, a second generation Japanese-American , was born January 27, 1966, [2] on a U.S. military base in Okinawa and grew up in Los Angeles. [3] [4] [5] Her Japanese-American father was in an internment camp during World War II. [4] [3] He met her mother while stationed in Okinawa between the Korean and Vietnam Wars. [5]
Korean-American actress Yun Jin Kim and the Asian Canadian Sandra Oh of the ABC television series Lost and Grey's Anatomy, respectively, were during their series' runs the main two Asian American actors in lead roles on network television (the latter is still on air), although both part of large-ensemble casts, where minority characters are ...
Tsuru Aoki (青木 鶴子, Aoki Tsuruko, September 9, 1892 – October 18, 1961) was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific in the United States during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s. Aoki may have been the first Asian actress to garner top billing in American motion pictures.
American actresses of Japanese descent (102 P) C. ... Pages in category "Actresses of Japanese descent" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Sakura was born to a Japanese mother and an American father with Irish ancestry. [1] She was raised in San Francisco and usually spent her summers as a child visiting relatives in Japan. [ 2 ] She went to Santa Susana High School in Simi Valley and later attended the University of Southern California , from which she graduated after three years ...