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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (田川洋行, born 27 September, 1950 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese American actor.
In addition to his extensive film work, he has appeared on television in Star Trek: The Next Generation - "Encounter at Farpoint" (1987), Thunder in Paradise (1995), Nash Bridges (1996), and Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003). He also provided the voice of Sin Tzu for the video game Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu. He is usually typecasted as a bad guy in movies like Mortal Kombat, Pearl Harbor, Memoirs of a Geisha, etc.
The son of an actress from
Tokyo and an American father who served in the
United States Army (stationed at
Fort Bragg,
North Carolina,
Fort Polk,
Louisiana and
Fort Hood,
Texas), Tagawa was born in Tokyo and was raised in various cities. He began acting in high school in
Southern California. He attended the
University of Southern California, and was an
exchange student in
Japan.
His breakthrough as an actor came when he was cast as the Eunuch Chang in The Last Emperor (1987).
In 1989 he posed as an undercover agent of the Hong Kong Narcotics Board in the James Bond film License to Kill.
Many will remember him in the movie Mortal Kombat (1995) as the shape-shifting sorcerer Shang Tsung, and as the deadly pirate leader Kabai Singh in The Phantom (1996).
He and his American wife and children live in Hawaii.
Partial filmography
