Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is an actor and voice actor of Japanese descent, who has both American and Russian citizenship. For Disney, he portrayed Johnny Tsunami in the film of the same name and the sequel Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board. He also voiced Akita in the 2017 reboot of DuckTales, Alrich Wren in Star Wars Rebels, and Valco in Star Wars: Visions. For Touchstone Pictures, he appeared in Pearl Harbor as Minoru Genda, and for 20th Century Studios, prior to their buyout, appeared in Planet of the Apes as Krull and Elektra as Master Roshi.
Tagawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of a Japanese actress and Japanese-American father who served in the United States Army and was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Polk, Louisiana; and Fort Hood, Texas. He is fluent in English, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. After being raised in various cities, his family finally settled in Southern California, where he began acting in high school while attending Duarte High School. He attended the University of Southern California as well as being an exchange student in Japan.
His first acting role was Big Trouble in Little China which he was not credited for, however, his breakthrough as an actor came when he was cast as the Eunuch Chang in The Last Emperor. He has since appeared in movies, such as Twins, License to Kill, Mortal Kombat, The Phantom, Danger Zone, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, Tekken, 47 Ronin, and Kubo and the Two Strings.
He has also done work on television, such as MacGyver, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Superboy, Alien Nation, Mission: Impossible, Baywatch, Renegade, Babylon 5, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Nash Bridges, Walker, Texas Ranger, Teen Wolf, The Librarians, The Man in the High Castle, Grimm, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Lost in Space.
==Roles==
Johnny Tsunami (character).jpg|Johnny Tsunami(Johnny Tsunami and Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board)
Dr. Akita.png|Akita(DuckTales)
Alrich Wren.png|Alrich Wren(Star Wars Rebels)
Vaan (Star Wars Visions).png|Vaan(Star Wars: Visions)
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