Trailer

Hiro Nakamura is played by japanese actor Masi Oka. Hiro is one of the lynchpin characters in Heroes. The show is very much an ensemble piece with no one actor being any more important to the plot than another. This has the advantage of making the fans care about their favourite character, but also not allowing them to relax and know for certain that they are going to survive. The actors also love the show as writer Tim Kring has allowed each character to develop over the three seasons. Having said all that, it very much feels like Hiro is the sould of the show, he represents the "geek" in all of us, his optimism, his sense of wonder and awe at the special power he has developed and those he sees developing in others is refreshing. He also has a highly developed sense of his responsibility to others as a "super hero" his words not ours. And he is fond of quoting the spiderman phrase "with great power comes great responsibility".

Masi Oka was born in Tokyo in December Nineteen Seventy Four. His parents divorced just after he was born and he has never met his father. At the age of six he moved to Los Angeles, but is still able to speak fluent Japanese. He went to to the prestigious Brown University and has a degree in Mathematics and computer science, he has an incredible IQ of 180. Unusually for an actor he is also a fully qualified and talented CGI artist and has worked and still works for George Lucas' company Industrial Light & Magic. He has worked on the special effects for movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest , War of the Worlds, the three most recent Star Wars movies, and The Perfect Storm, but not as yet on Heroes.

Other shows and films where you may have seen Masi Oka:

  1. Fired Up! (2009)
  2. Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control 
  3. Get Smart 
  4. The Promotion
  5. "Reno 911!"
  6. Balls of Fury
  7. Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
  8. "The Sarah Silverman Program." 
  9. "Joey"
  10. "The Loop"
  11. "Without a Trace" 
  12. "Reba" 
  13. One Sung Hero (2006)
  14. God Wears My Underwear (2005)
  15. House of the Dead 2 (2005)
  16. "Less Than Perfect" 
  17. "All of Us" 
  18. Chester's Big Night (2004)
  19. "Scrubs" 
  20. "Still Standing" 
  21. Along Came Polly (2004) .... Wonsuk
  22. "Luis" Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
  23. "On the Spot"
  24. "She Spies"
  25. Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
  26. "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"
  27. "Yes, Dear" 
  28. "Gilmore Girls"
  29. "Citizen Baines"
  30. "Dharma & Greg"

 

IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD, OR FEEL WE HAVE MISSED ANYTHING OUT OF THIS BIOGRAPHY WE WOULD LOVE TO GET YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE ADD THEM BELOW