Peter "Navy" Tuiasosopo

Peter Navy Tuiasosopo
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo as E. Honda in Street Fighter.
Born	December 22, 1963 (1963-12-22) (age 47) San Pedro, California
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1992 to present
Spouse	Cheryl D. Leonard

Peter Navy Tuiasosopo (born December 22, 1963) is an American-Samoan actor. Tuiasosopo is perhaps best known for his roles as E. Honda in Universal Pictures Street Fighter and Manumana in the Paramount Pictures film Necessary Roughness.

Personal life

Tuiasosopo was born and raised in San Pedro, California. His father was U.S. Army (27 years) and U.S. Postal Service retired Manavaalofa Petelo "Sgt. Pete" Tuiasosopo (1935–2008) of Fagatogo, American Samoa and mother Registered Nurse (30 years) retired Silaulala "Sheila" Lealoa Alofaituli (1927–2007) of Vatia, American Samoa. He is also the grandson of High Chief and U.S. Naval Retired, Petelo Siosi Tuiasosopo of Fagatogo, AS. Tuiasosopo's middle name (Navy) was given by his father in honor of his grandfather. One of seven children: Brother Andrew Tuiasosopo (Carson, CA) and sisters Jean Redondo (Long Beach, CA), Aavonda Gonzales (San Pedro, CA), Aaleslie Speake (deceased), Aaona Speake (deceased) and Adaline Aure (Bellingham, WA) were all raised in the Christian faith in which Tuiasosopo continues to follow.

Education

He prepped in San Pedro at Taper Avenue Elementary, Dodson Jr. High School and Banning High School. He lettered in both football as an offensive/defensive lineman and on the track team as a shot-putter. After graduating high school (1983) he continued as a student-athlete (football) at Cal-Poly University-San Luis Obispo, CA. He majored in Criminal Justice. One of the main reasons Tuiasosopo chose to attend Cal-Poly was to be with close cousins and teammates Eric Tautolo (Long Beach, CA) and Paulo Pueliu (Carson, CA).

After college he married Cheryl D. Leonard of Wilmington, CA and Yuma, Arizona. He and wife Cheryl have six children. Son's Lakei and Manoah Tuiasosopo. And daughters Tessa (son Kapono), Rio, Piper and Nisili Tuiasosopo. All his children and grandson are middle named Peter. After college Tuiasosopo pursued the NFL as an offensive lineman going as far as the NFL Combine in San Diego, CA. Tuiasosopo was greatly influenced by his uncle Bob Apisa (MICHIGAN ST./NFL) and cousins Manu Tuiasosopo (UCLA/NFL), Tautolo brothers Terry Tautolo (UCLA/NFL), John Tautolo (UCLA/NFL/USFL), Ray Tautolo (UCLA), Frank Manumaleuna (UCLA/NFL/USFL), Toa Saipale (UCLA), Roger Levasa (OREGON ST./USFL) just to name a few.

Tuiasosopo worked a few smaller jobs after college and during training for football as a bouncer, construction worker, fitness trainer before his job with McDonnell Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach, CA, as a structural mechanic. During his few years at McDonnell Douglas Tuiasosopo served as an elected union steward for two years. Tuiasosopo truly enjoyed his experience as a union representative and learned a lot about the union and company structure and relations.

Acting

Street Fighter

Tuiasosopo is perhaps best known for playing the role of E. Honda in the live action movie Street Fighter along with Jean-Claude Van Damme and the late Raul Julia.

First Film and Television Works

Tuiasosopo's first motion picture film role was Manumana "the Slender", the committed and respectful center on the fictional reconstructed Texas State "Fighting Armadillos" football team in the 1991 film Necessary Roughness. Tuiasosopo took Leave of Absence on personal matters from the Douglas Aircraft Company, McDonnell Douglas, in Long Beach, California, to film Necessary Roughness. Shortly after this film he co-starred in his first television series with original television Batman Adam West as the strong-armed detective Al Hamoki for Fox-TV called, Danger Theatre. Tuiasosopo had another film as Willie Dumaine in 12 Rounds along with WWE wrestler John Cena.^[1]

Filmography

• Necessary Roughness (1991) as Manumana
• On Deadly Ground (1994) as Worker #1
• Street Fighter (1994) as E. Honda
• Batman & Robin (1997) as Observatory Guard
• BASEketball (1998) as Ed Tuttle
• Charlie's Angels (2000) as Pink's Body Guard
• The Fast and the Furious (2001) as Samoan Guard
• The Scorpion King (2002) as Night Gate Guard
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) as Sumo Wrestler
• Speed Racer (2008) as Fuji Announcer
• 12 Rounds (2009) as Willie Dumaine
• A Perfect Getaway (2009) as Supply Guy
• The Slammin' Salmon (2009) as Miami Dolphin #1
• Kickin' It (2011) as Yoshi Nakamura

References

1. ^ Peter Tuiasosopo

External links

• Peter "Navy" Tuiasosopo at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Tuiasosopo, Peter
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Date of birth	December 22, 1963
Place of birth	San Pedro, California
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