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Masi Oka
Emmy and Golden Globe Award-nominated Masi Oka stars on the hit TV show Heroes as Hiro Nakamura, a Japanese nonconformist computer/anime geek. Hiro’s ability to pierce the space-time continuum and manipulate time has empowered him with foresight into a dangerous future -- and what he must do to change it.
Oka has had recurring roles on Scrubs as Franklyn and on Luis as Deng Wu. He has also guest starred on Without a Trace, Joey, Reba, The Loop, All of Us, Still Standing, Will & Grace, Yes, Dear and The Gilmore Girls.
He stars in the upcoming feature-film remake of the television classic Get Smart and its companion DVD release Get Smarter. His additional film credits include memorable roles in Along Came Polly and Austin Powers in Goldmember.
As a comedian, Oka has performed with the Groundlings, ImprovOlympics, Second City and TheatreSports. His improvisational expertise has been showcased with guest appearances as various characters on Punk’d, Reno 911 and The Jamie Kennedy Experiment.
Oka took his first job out of college with George Lucas’ Oscar-winning special effects house Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) as a programmer. Today, despite his successful career as an actor, he continues to provide ILM with technology for groundbreaking effects used in more than 30 films.
Oka is at Starfest as part of the Get Smart presentation Saturday at Noon in Main Events.
*For more details see NBC.com
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