Gedde Watanabe

At 69 years old, Gedde Watanabe has this physical status:

Gary "Gedde" Watanabe (born June 26, 1955) is an American actor and comedian.

He is perhaps best known for his role as Ling in the 1998 animated film Mulan and its 2004 sequel, Mulan II, as well as playing Long Duk Dong in the 1984 film Sixteen Candles.

Early life and education

Watanabe was born and raised in Ogden, Utah, with a Japanese-American family. His mother, who had been interned during World War II, worked as a seamster at the Utah Tailoring Company. He appeared in many dramatic productions in high school, both acting and singing. Watanabe's family immigrated to San Francisco, where he worked as a street musician while honing his acting skills.

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Career

Watanabe's first appearance in 1976 was as a member of the original Broadway cast of Pacific Overtures, with the roles of Priest, Girl, and The Boy. He has since appeared in a number of films and television series, the first of which was The Long Island Four in 1980.

Many of his roles are caricatured East Asians with heavy accents, though he does not speak Japanese.

He appeared in both the film Gung Ho and its television spinoff. Kuni, a karate instructor and the obnoxious host of a television game show called Wheel of Fish, co-starred in the 1989 film "Weird Al" Yankovic. On the Weird Al Show, he reprised his role. Watanabe appeared on Sesame Street from 1988 to 1991 as Hiroshi and appeared on Sesame Street from 1988 to 1991 as Hiroshi, and he played gay nurse Yoshi Takata on the television drama ER from 1997 to 2003. Watanabe studied acting at Theater Theater in Hollywood, California, with Chris Aable, who introduced him to fellow actors Jon Cedar and Steve Burton during the nineties. On the animated television comedy The Simpsons, he portrayed several Japanese characters. He appeared Ling in the Disney animated film Mulan in 1998 and reprised his role in the 2004 direct-to-video sequel Mulan II and 2005 video game Kingdom Hearts II.

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