Miyoshi Umeki

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Birth Name: 梅木美代志

Born: 8 May 1929 Died: 28 August 2007

Country of origin: Japan

Height: 5' 1"

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Japanese and Nipo-American Actors in Hollywood (23 items)
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Published 9 years, 12 months ago

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (75 items)
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Published 11 years, 10 months ago

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Directed by John Sturges (462 items)
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Published 13 years, 6 months ago

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Academy Awards 1950-1959 (40 items)
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Published 14 years, 4 months ago

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Every Best Supporting Actress Winner (83 items)
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Published 3 years, 11 months ago

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Description: 梅木美代志, Umeki Miyoshi, or ミヨシ・ウメキ Miyoshi Umeki. Naturalized American Academy Award-winning actress and standards singer. She was best known for her roles as Katsumi, the wife of Joe Kelly (Red Buttons), in the 1957 film Sayonara, as Mei Li in the 1958 Broadway musical and 1961 film Flower Drum Song, and as Mrs. Livingston, the housekeeper of Bill Bixby's and Brandon Cruz's characters, in the TV series The Courtship of Eddie's Father. She was a shin Issei or post-1945 immigrant from Japan. She was a Tony Award- and Golden Globe-nominated actress and was the first and only Asian woman to win an Academy Aw ... (more)