George Takei's biography

George Hosato Takei is 85 years old comedian born at Los Angeles. He was born on Tuesday 20th of April 1937. George is often nicknamed as George Takai, Uncle George. According to year of birth 1937 George belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 20th of April means George is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.

George is native english speaker. George is asian american. He is citizen of United States of America. George is buddhist. George´s primary profession is to be comedian. You can know him also as singer, voice actor, blogger, film actor, television actor. He is recently known as actor.

George Takei's schools

We found 5 schools George attended. Complete list of schools: University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Berkeley, Sophia University, Los Angeles High School.

Detailed informations about George´s schools

He studied university - University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-Upon-Avon in England, Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.

George Takei's career

His main focus is to be comedian. He is famous thanks to Played Sulu on Star Trek (original television series and movies one through six).

Is George Takei gay ?

George is known to be gay.

Awards and competitions

George Takei's Awards

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6681 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 30, 1986.
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]
He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette by Emperor Akihito in 2004.

What else you don't know about George Takei ?

George´s middle name is Hosato.

What George Takei has done for a first time

In 1996, he became the first original Star Trek (1966) series actor to go to a South American convention, in SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil.
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.
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]

George Takei's 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.
(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.
[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.
I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
Star Trek (1966) is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
Plays close, movies wrap and television series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three seasons.
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
To do theater, you need to block off a hunk of time.
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
As you know, when Star Trek (1966) was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, "Fly Blackbird", and we met Martin Luther King.
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
I thought this convention phenomenon [Star Trek] was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spin-offs of us.
This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, an understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
Well, the whole history of Star Trek (1966) is the market demand.
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time, I was very young.
I'm an Anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
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George Takei's height, body shape, eye color

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