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Claude Maki Born October 3, 1972
Tokyo, JapanOccupation Actor, Singer Years active 1988-present Website http://www.iandiproduction.com/home/artists/maki/maki.html Claude Maki (真木蔵人 Maki Kurōdo) (born October 3, 1972) is a Japanese surfing champion, actor and hip hop singer, under the stage name A.K.T.I.O.N., from Tokyo Akasaka. He is the eldest son of actor and singer Mike Maki. His mother is Bibari Maeda (前田 美波里 Maeda Bibari), an American-Japanese actress.
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Biography
His size is 173 cm and his hobby is surfing. He made his television acting debut in 1987, at age 15, in NHK's year-long Japanese period drama series Takeda Shingen.[1] Also that year, he made his motion picture debut in Soul Music Lovers Only. In 1989, he was named Best Newcomer at the Japanese Academy Awards for his role in the film Buddies. In 1991 he portrayed the deaf-mute surfer Shigeru in Takeshi Kitano's third film A Scene at the Sea. He starred in Junji Sakamoto's Falling Angels in 1997, followed by four films in 1998 including Golden Wolf, Resurrection, and Beat.
As a rapper he is on the same label as Zeebra, Solomon i&i Production.
Roles
Filmography
- 1988: Soul Music Lovers Only
- 1989: Buddies
- 1991: A Scene at the Sea
- 1997: Fallen Angels
- 1998: Golden Wolf
- 1998: Beat
- 1998: Resurrection
- 1998: Dolphin Through
- 2000: Brother
- 2003: 3 on 3
- 2006: Backdancers!
- 2007: Like a Dragon
TV Series
- 1987: Takeda Shingen
References
External links
- Artist page (as Claude Maki) at Solomon i&i Production
- Artist page (as A.K.T.I.O.N.) at Pony Canyon
- Artist page (as A.K.T.I.O.N.) at UBG Records
- Claude Maki at the Internet Movie Database
Yokohama Film Festival Best Actor Ken Ogata (1980) · Masato Furuoya (1981) · Toshiyuki Nagashima (1982) · Ruudo Uzaki (1983) · Yusaku Matsuda (1984) · Takeshi Kaga (1985) · Minori Terada (1986) · Kouichi Iwaki (1987) · Saburō Tokitō (1988) · Hiroyuki Sanada (1989) · Ryo Ishibashi (1990) · Masato Furuoya (1991) · Hidekazu Akai (1992) · Masahiro Motoki (1993) · Hiroyuki Sanada (1994) · Eiji Okuda (1995) · Etsushi Toyokawa (1996) · Kōji Yakusho / Tadanobu Asano (1997) · Yoshio Harada (1998) · Kiichi Nakai / Claude Maki (1999) · Ken Takakura (2000) · Tadanobu Asano (2001) · Yōsuke Kubozuka (2002) · Kyōzō Nagatsuka / Seiichi Tanabe (2003) · Satoshi Tsumabuki (2004) · Kōji Yakusho (2005) · Joe Odagiri (2006) · Teruyuki Kagawa (2007) · Ryō Kase (2008) · Kaoru Kobayashi (2009) · Masato Sakai (2010)
Categories:- 1972 births
- Living people
- Japanese actors
- Japanese hip hop musicians
- Japanese male singers
- Japanese people of American descent
- Japanese actor stubs
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