Masi oka biography actor
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Masi Oka Biography
Dec 27, 1974Birth Place:
Tokyo, Japan
Biography
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Masi Oka ماسي أوكا
Masi Oka is a Japanese-American actor and digital effects artist best known for playing the time-traveling Hiro Nakamuro on NBC's "Heroes." He was born in Tokyo, Japan, on December...Read more 27, 1974; his parents split up when he was young and he never met his father. At age 6, he moved with his mother to Los Angeles, where two years later he would appear on CBS's game show "Child's Play." Soon after he was featured on the cover under the title "Those Asian-American Whiz Kids," though he was only featured because he knew the photographer on the shoot. He graduated from Harvard-Westlake High School in 1992, then Brown University in 1997 with a degree in mathematics and computer science. Also at Brown, he was the musical director of "The Bear Necessities," an all-male a capella group. He then got a job with George Lucas' company, Industrial Light & Magic; he worked on the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy. Hoping to break into acting, Oka soon earned a few guest spots on "Scrubs" and then "Austin Powers in Goldmember" in 2002. He then earned his role on "Heroes," for which he would become famous. Strengthened by his fluency in English, Japanese and Spanish and previous work as a translator, Oka translated his lines in the show from Japanese to English. He w
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Masi Oka
Japanese actor
Masayori "Masi" Oka (岡 政偉, Oka Masayori, December 27, 1974)[1][2] is a Japanese[3] actor, producer, and digital effects artist who became widely known for starring in NBC's Heroes as Hiro Nakamura, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, and in CBS's Hawaii Five-0 as Doctor Max Bergman.[4]
Early life
[edit]Oka was born in Tokyo, Japan, to Setsuko Oka.[1] His parents divorced when he was one month old; he was raised in a single parent family and has never met his father.[5] He was six years old when he and his mother moved to Los Angeles from Japan.[6] At age eight, he appeared on the CBS-TV game show Child's Play. In 1987, a 12-year-old Oka was featured as one of several children on the cover of Time magazine, for the article "Those Asian-American Whiz Kids."[7] Though he was not featured in the article itself, he was acquainted with the photographer who conducted the shoot.[8] In 1988, he placed fourth in the California state MATHCOUNTS competition and was one of the four students to represent the state of California in the national competition.[9]
Oka attended B