Steve Akahoshi

Steve Akahoshi

62 · Born: Sep 19, 1961

Personal Details

Born Sep 19, 1961 Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

To be a "series regular" on a primetime network television show is a plateau of success to which many actors aspire. For Steven, who starred as "Doc" Randy Matsuda on the critically acclaimed Emmy Award winning CBS Vietnam drama series Tour of Duty (1987) (1987-88; and currently in syndication on TNT), that success came early in his career. That followed five days after his first break in show business: a co-starring role as Detective Shigeta in the Whoopi Goldberg/Sam Elliott feature film Fatal Beauty (1987) for MGM/UA in which he earned his Screen Actors Guild card. An impressive body of work in over 100 feature films, television, theater and commercial productions ensued including such fare as the successful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III for New Line Cinema; the family drama A Year in the Life (opposite Richard Kiley and Sarah Jessica Parker) for NBC; The O.J. Simpson Story (1995) bio-pic for Fox TV; and the actioner Back to Back (1996) for HBO.

Career

1995
The O.J. Simpson Story
The O.J. Simpson Story as TV Detective No. 2
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1987
Tour of Duty
Tour of Duty as SP4 Randy 'Doc' Matsuda
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2002
Hollywood Vampyr
Hollywood Vampyr as Director
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