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 George Takei was born Hosato Takei on April 20, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. His mother was born in Sacramento to Japanese parents & his father was born in Japan. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, he & his family were relocated from Los Angeles to the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Later, they were moved to a camp at Tule Lake in Northern California. His first-hand knowledge of the unjust internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in World War II, poignantly chronicled in his autobiography, created a lifelong interest in politics & community affairs.After graduating from Los Angeles High School in 1956, he studied architecture at UC Berkeley. An ad in a Japanese community paper led to a summer job on the MGM lot where he dubbed 8 characters from Japanese into English for Rodan (1956). Bitten by the acting bug, he transferred to UCLA as a theater arts major. Contacting an agent he had met at MGM led to his appearance as an embittered soldier in postwar Japan in the Playhouse 90 (1956) production. Being spotted in a UCLA theater production by a Warner Bros. casting director led to his feature film debut in Ice Palace (1960), various roles in Hawaiian Eye (1959) &other feature work. In June 1960, he completed his degree at UCLA and studied at the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-Upon-Avon in England that summer.After starting a master's degree program at UCLA, he was cast in the socially relevant stage musical production Fly Blackbird! but was replaced when the show moved to New York. He took odd jobs until returning to his role at the end of the run. Getting little work in Manhattan, he returned to Los Angeles to continue his studies, once again appearing in TV & films. He earned his master's in 1964. Wanting a multi-racial crew, Gene Roddenberry cast him in Where No Man Has Gone Before, the second Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) pilot. Mr. Sulu remained a regular character when the series went into production. In the hiatus after the end of shooting the first season, he worked on The Green Berets (1968), playing a South Vietnamese Special Forces officer.After Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) was canceled, he did guest stints in several TV shows, voiced Sulu for the animated Star Trek series & regularly appeared at Star Trek conventions. He also produced & hosted a public affairs show Expression East/West, which aired in Los Angeles from 1971-1973. That year, he ran for the L.A. City Council. Although he lost by a small margin, Mayor Tom Bradley appointed him to the board of directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District, where he served until 1984 & contributed to plans for the subway. During this period, he co-wrote a sci-fi novel Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe. He campaigned to get more respect for his character in the Star Trek features, resulting in Sulu finally obtaining the rank of captain in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), a role reprised in the Star Trek: Voyager (1995) episode Flashback.He has run several marathons and was in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Torch Relay. He received a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame in 1986. He also left his signature & hand print in cement at the Chinese Theater in 1991. His 1994 autobiography, To the Stars, was well-received. He remains active as a stage, TV & film actor as well as as an advocate for the interests of Japanese Americans.
Bio:
George Takei was born Hosato Takei on April 20, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. His mother was born in Sacramento to Japanese parents & his father was born in Japan. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, he & his family were relocated from Los Angeles to the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Later, they were moved to a camp at Tule Lake in Northern California. His first-hand knowledge of the unjust internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in World War II, poignantly chronicled in his autobiography, created a lifelong interest in politics & community affairs.After graduating from Los Angeles High School in 1956, he studied architecture at UC Berkeley. An ad in a Japanese community paper led to a summer job on the MGM lot where he dubbed 8 characters from Japanese into English for Rodan (1956). Bitten by the acting bug, he transferred to UCLA as a theater arts major. Contacting an agent he had met at MGM led to his appearance as an embittered soldier in postwar Japan in the Playhouse 90 (1956) production. Being spotted in a UCLA theater production by a Warner Bros. casting director led to his feature film debut in Ice Palace (1960), various roles in Hawaiian Eye (1959) &other feature work. In June 1960, he completed his degree at UCLA and studied at the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-Upon-Avon in England that summer.After starting a master's degree program at UCLA, he was cast in the socially relevant stage musical production Fly Blackbird! but was replaced when the show moved to New York. He took odd jobs until returning to his role at the end of the run. Getting little work in Manhattan, he returned to Los Angeles to continue his studies, once again appearing in TV & films. He earned his master's in 1964. Wanting a multi-racial crew, Gene Roddenberry cast him in Where No Man Has Gone Before, the second Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) pilot. Mr. Sulu remained a regular character when the series went into production. In the hiatus after the end of shooting the first season, he worked on The Green Berets (1968), playing a South Vietnamese Special Forces officer.After Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) was canceled, he did guest stints in several TV shows, voiced Sulu for the animated Star Trek series & regularly appeared at Star Trek conventions. He also produced & hosted a public affairs show Expression East/West, which aired in Los Angeles from 1971-1973. That year, he ran for the L.A. City Council. Although he lost by a small margin, Mayor Tom Bradley appointed him to the board of directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District, where he served until 1984 & contributed to plans for the subway. During this period, he co-wrote a sci-fi novel Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe. He campaigned to get more respect for his character in the Star Trek features, resulting in Sulu finally obtaining the rank of captain in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), a role reprised in the Star Trek: Voyager (1995) episode Flashback.He has run several marathons and was in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Torch Relay. He received a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame in 1986. He also left his signature & hand print in cement at the Chinese Theater in 1991. His 1994 autobiography, To the Stars, was well-received. He remains active as a stage, TV & film actor as well as as an advocate for the interests of Japanese Americans.
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During World War II, Takei lived with his family in several government internment camps for people of Japanese ancestry. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the applicable Executive Order No. 9066, on February 19th 1942. In December 1944, President Roosevelt suspended Executive Order 9066. Incarcerees were released, often to resettlement facilities and temporary housing, and the camps were shut down by 1946. Ironically, George shares a birthday with Adolf Hitler; he was born on Hitler's 48th birthday so he was still alive.When he met with Gene Roddenberry about a role on Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), Roddenberry called him Takei (pronouncing it "Ta-KAI"), which translates from the Japanese as "expensive" or "tall" (his name is actually pronounced "Ta-KAY", which rhymes with "okay"). This is how Roddenberry remembered his name.His family was incarcerated at an internment camp in Arkansas when he was 4 to 8 years old. He learned to recite the Pledge of Allegiance while surrounded by guard towers and barbed-wire fences.Has initially objected to the scene in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) where the tall Starfleet guard calls him "tiny". When the scene was screened for audiences, the audiences cheered Sulu (Takei) when he defeated the tall guard, and Takei later apologized to writer Harve Bennett for it.At the University of California, Los Angeles, he and classmate Francis Ford Coppola made a student film together called "Christopher".Has made guest appearances on both Hawaii Five-O (1968) and Hawaii Five-0 (2010).For the television special "The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next" (1988), George Takei explains how he once rode a Los Angeles plane with Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) star Patrick Stewart. They talked immediately after recognizing one another, but there were complications during final approach, unknown to either actor until landing. He joked to the pilots that the helmsman of the original Enterprise and captain of the Enterprise-D could have offered assistance.Speaks Japanese and Spanish fluently.Attended and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. His major was Theater Arts and his minor was Latin American Studies. His father said that both of those areas of study meant that he would be supporting George for the rest of his life.Has played the same character (Hikaru Sulu) on three different series: Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995).Is named after King George VI of the United Kingdom.An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter (discovered on April 13, 1994) has been renamed 7307 Takei in his honor.Among his first acting jobs was as a voice artist. Although he was only a teenager, he dubbed English dialog for adult characters in Japanese films being released in the United States.His best man at his wedding was Walter Koenig.Has initially declined to appear in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), but William Shatner personally called him and persuaded him to star in the film.The youngest cast member of the original Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) series.Along with Robert Duncan McNeill and Robert Picardo, he is one of only three "Star Trek" regulars to wear all three uniform colours. He wore a blue (medical/science) uniform in the second Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966), the gold (command) uniform in every subsequent episode of the series in which he appeared and the red (security) uniform in Mirror, Mirror (1967).His father was an Anglophile, and named him George Takei after King George VI of the United Kingdom, whose coronation took place on May 12, 1937.His character Kaito Nakamura's last name is his mother's maiden name.Reprised his role as Hikaru Sulu for the 2006 Internet-only series Star Trek Phase II (2004), after the suggestion of co-star Walter Koenig.He and his partner, Brad Takei, had been together more than 21 years before they were married on September 14, 2008. After the California Supreme Court struck down a ban on same-sex marriage in May, Takei and Altman were among the first gay couples to get a marriage license.Has been a jogger for many years, and runs marathons. In the Los Angeles Marathon, his best time, as of 1989, was 3 hours and 40 minutes.Has stated that his favourite Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) episode is The Naked Time (1966).He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6681 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 30, 1986.Has appeared in episodes of three different series with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Nichelle Nichols: Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973) and Futurama (1999).He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette by Emperor Akihito in 2004.Sometimes mangled, his surname is pronounced "Takay".Is an avid Anglophile and loves traveling to Britain.Son of Takekuma Norman Takei, who worked in real estate, and his wife Fumiko Emily Nakamura.Is a huge fan of Anime.Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Walter Koenig: Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), Diagnosis Murder (1993) and Futurama (1999).Has been an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University since 1979.In 1996, he became the first original Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) series actor to go to a South American convention, in S?o Paulo, Brazil.Whilst being known for his long running role in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), he has appeared in other television series such as Mission: Impossible (1966), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) and Hawaii Five-O (1968) while films include such as Walk Don't Run (1966) and The Green Berets (1968).He was producer/host of "Life Can be Frozen", a PBS special about cryogenics and was producer/host of a public affairs talk show in Los Angeles and has been active in community and civic affairs.He made his professional debut in a Playhouse 90 production.Best known by the public (and by many sci-fi fans) for his role as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu on the original Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) series.Appeared at Nippon2007, the first World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Japan (Yokohama). Along with promoting his own recent projects, he co-hosted the 2007 Hugo Awards. (August 2007)Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Grace Lee Whitney: Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), Star Trek Phase II (2004) and Diagnosis Murder (1993).He appeared on stage in a two-hander called "Undertow" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (1988).He co-wrote the novel "Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe" with Robert Asprin.Along with Jason Wingreen, Clive Revill, Felix Silla and Deep Roy, he is one of only five actors to appear in both the "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" series. In 2008, he appeared in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) as General Lok Durd.Was close friends with actress Beulah Quo.Is a favorite of the Howard Stern audience.One day younger than Elinor Donahue who starred with him in Metamorphosis (1967).Has appeared as a contestant on ITV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! (2002). (November 2008) |
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George Takei |
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| Biography: |
George Takei was born Hosato Takei on April 20, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. His mother was born in Sacramento to Japanese parents & his father was born in Japan. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, he & his family were relocated from Los Angel |
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During World War II, Takei lived with his family in several government internment camps for people of Japanese ancestry. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the applicable Executive Order No. 9066, on February 19th 1942. In December 1944, President Roosevelt suspended Executive Order 9066. Incarcerees were released, often to resettlement facilities and temporary housing, and the camps were shut down by 1946. Ironically, George shares a birthday with Adolf Hitler; he was born on Hitler's 48th birthday so he was still alive.When he met with Gene Roddenberry about a role on Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), Roddenberry called him Takei (pronouncing it "Ta-KAI"), which translates from the Japanese as "expensive" or "tall" (his name is actually pronounced "Ta-KAY", which rhymes with "okay"). This is how Roddenberry remembered his name.His family was incarcerated at an internment camp in Arkansas when he was 4 to 8 years old. He learned to recite the Pledge of Allegiance while surrounded by guard towers and barbed-wire fences.Has initially objected to the scene in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) where the tall Starfleet guard calls him "tiny". When the scene was screened for audiences, the audiences cheered Sulu (Takei) when he defeated the tall guard, and Takei later apologized to writer Harve Bennett for it.At the University of California, Los Angeles, he and classmate Francis Ford Coppola made a student film together called "Christopher".Has made guest appearances on both Hawaii Five-O (1968) and Hawaii Five-0 (2010).For the television special "The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next" (1988), George Takei explains how he once rode a Los Angeles plane with Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) star Patrick Stewart. They talked immediately after recognizing one another, but there were complications during final approach, unknown to either actor until landing. He joked to the pilots that the helmsman of the original Enterprise and captain of the Enterprise-D could have offered assistance.Speaks Japanese and Spanish fluently.Attended and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. His major was Theater Arts and his minor was Latin American Studies. His father said that both of those areas of study meant that he would be supporting George for the rest of his life.Has played the same character (Hikaru Sulu) on three different series: Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995).Is named after King George VI of the United Kingdom.An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter (discovered on April 13, 1994) has been renamed 7307 Takei in his honor.Among his first acting jobs was as a voice artist. Although he was only a teenager, he dubbed English dialog for adult characters in Japanese films being released in the United States.His best man at his wedding was Walter Koenig.Has initially declined to appear in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), but William Shatner personally called him and persuaded him to star in the film.The youngest cast member of the original Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) series.Along with Robert Duncan McNeill and Robert Picardo, he is one of only three "Star Trek" regulars to wear all three uniform colours. He wore a blue (medical/science) uniform in the second Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966), the gold (command) uniform in every subsequent episode of the series in which he appeared and the red (security) uniform in Mirror, Mirror (1967).His father was an Anglophile, and named him George Takei after King George VI of the United Kingdom, whose coronation took place on May 12, 1937.His character Kaito Nakamura's last name is his mother's maiden name.Reprised his role as Hikaru Sulu for the 2006 Internet-only series Star Trek Phase II (2004), after the suggestion of co-star Walter Koenig.He and his partner, Brad Takei, had been together more than 21 years before they were married on September 14, 2008. After the California Supreme Court struck down a ban on same-sex marriage in May, Takei and Altman were among the first gay couples to get a marriage license.Has been a jogger for many years, and runs marathons. In the Los Angeles Marathon, his best time, as of 1989, was 3 hours and 40 minutes.Has stated that his favourite Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) episode is The Naked Time (1966).He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6681 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 30, 1986.Has appeared in episodes of three different series with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Nichelle Nichols: Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973) and Futurama (1999).He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette by Emperor Akihito in 2004.Sometimes mangled, his surname is pronounced "Takay".Is an avid Anglophile and loves traveling to Britain.Son of Takekuma Norman Takei, who worked in real estate, and his wife Fumiko Emily Nakamura.Is a huge fan of Anime.Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Walter Koenig: Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), Diagnosis Murder (1993) and Futurama (1999).Has been an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University since 1979.In 1996, he became the first original Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) series actor to go to a South American convention, in S?o Paulo, Brazil.Whilst being known for his long running role in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), he has appeared in other television series such as Mission: Impossible (1966), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) and Hawaii Five-O (1968) while films include such as Walk Don't Run (1966) and The Green Berets (1968).He was producer/host of "Life Can be Frozen", a PBS special about cryogenics and was producer/host of a public affairs talk show in Los Angeles and has been active in community and civic affairs.He made his professional debut in a Playhouse 90 production.Best known by the public (and by many sci-fi fans) for his role as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu on the original Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) series.Appeared at Nippon2007, the first World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Japan (Yokohama). Along with promoting his own recent projects, he co-hosted the 2007 Hugo Awards. (August 2007)Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Grace Lee Whitney: Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), Star Trek Phase II (2004) and Diagnosis Murder (1993).He appeared on stage in a two-hander called "Undertow" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (1988).He co-wrote the novel "Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe" with Robert Asprin.Along with Jason Wingreen, Clive Revill, Felix Silla and Deep Roy, he is one of only five actors to appear in both the "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" series. In 2008, he appeared in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) as General Lok Durd.Was close friends with actress Beulah Quo.Is a favorite of the Howard Stern audience.One day younger than Elinor Donahue who starred with him in Metamorphosis (1967).Has appeared as a contestant on ITV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! (2002). (November 2008) |
| Trademarks: |
Deep smooth voice
Catchphrase: "Oh my!"
Unique clipped manner of speaking |
| Quotes: |
[on William Shatner]: He's just a wonderful actor who created a singular character. No one could have done Kirk the way Bill did. His energy and his determination, that's Bill. And that's also Captain Kirk.
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(2005) The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.
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[during a 2006 interview with Scott Simon on National Public Radio] I went to school in a black tar-paper barrack [as a child in internment camps] and began the day seeing the barbed-wire fence, and thank god those barbed-wire fences are now long gone for Japanese Americans. But I still see an invisible, legalistic barbed-wire that keeps me, my partner of 19 years, Brad Altman, and another group of Americans separated from a normal life. That's what I've been advocating on the Human Rights Campaign Equality Tour--I call it the "Equality Trek".
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[on the Occupy Wall Street movement] The struggle is not only social, economic and political - it is *structural*. No matter what side you are on, it is worth listening to what they have to say.
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John D.F. Black who wrote The Naked Time (1966) came to me and said he was thinking of having Sulu use a Samurai sword. I told him, "It certainly is ethnically appropriate because I am of Japanese ancestry but what about a rapier? I was born in this country and when I was a kid I didn't play Samurai. I played Robin Hood." He asked me if I know how to fence to which I replied, "Of course." That night I grabbed the phonebook and was furiously trying to find fencing schools so I could learn at least the basics. |
| Job title: |
Actor,Additional Crew,Writer |
| Others works: |
(1999) TV commercial for E*Trade.
(December 1, 1995) Release of his book, "To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu" by Pocket Books, an imprint/division of Simon & Schuster, Manhattan, New York City, New York, |
| Spouse: |
Brad Takei (September 14, 2008 - present) |
| Parents: |
Takekuma Norman Takei
Fumiko Emily Takei |
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