Chris Tashima - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

Explore Chris Tashima net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Famous for his directing, producing as well as co-writing and appearing in the Oscar award-winning film “Visas and Virtue,” the actor and director created a Los Angeles-based Asian-American-themed theater company, Cedar Grove OnStage. In this article, we will discover how old is Chris Tashima? Who is Chris Tashima dating now & how much money does Chris Tashima have?

Chris Tashima Biography

Chris Tashima is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on March 24, 1960 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The film he made a name for, “Visas and Virtue,” tells the story of the WWII-era diplomat His acclaimed short film, “Visas and Virtue,” tells the story of World War II-era diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who helped save the lives of thousands of Jewish refugees. who aided in saving the lives of a multitude of Jewish refugees.

Christopher Inadomi “Chris” Tashima (born March 24, 1960) is a Japanese American actor and director. He is co-founder of the entertainment company Cedar Grove Productions and Artistic Director of its Asian American theatre company, Cedar Grove OnStage. He is an Academy Award winner for directing the film Visas and Virtue as well as starring in it.

Tashima was born on the East Coast, while his father (Judge A. Wallace Tashima) attended Harvard Law School, but grew up in California. He lived in Pasadena, where he began Suzuki Method violin at age 6. His family moved to Berkeley, where he lived for nine years, attending The College Preparatory School. He returned to Southern California, graduating from John Marshall High School (1978). He attended UC Santa Cruz (Porter College), where he studied film production. He also attended UCLA, and took additional filmmaking courses at Visual Communications (VC). He started his acting career at East West Players in 1985. He is the son of U.S. Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima.

Born to an American family of Japanese descent living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he spent most of his childhood living in California. California cities such as Pasadena, Berkeley, and Los Angeles.

He was a part of as well as directed an Regional Emmy nominated 2003 PBS television special entitled “Day of Independence.”

Tashima served as producer of the 1990 world premiere of Maui, December 7, 1941, a play by Jon Shirota, based on his novel, “Lucky Come Hawaii.” Directed by Mako, the World War II comedy was presented at the InnerCity Cultural Center in Los Angeles, and received a nomination from the LA Weekly, for “Production of the Year.”

Chris Tashima Net Worth

Chris is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Tashima's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

After graduating from film school at the University of California-Santa Barbara as well as the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California-Los Angeles, he appeared in a variety of theatrical productions for Los Angeles’ East West Players company.

Tashima stars as the romantic lead opposite Joan Chen in Eric Byler’s Americanese, an unreleased feature from IFC First Take. The film won two awards after its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, including a Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble Cast. He has also appeared in Sherwood Hu’s Lani Loa – The Passage (1998) with Angus Macfadyen, and Rea Tajiri’s Strawberry Fields (1997) with Suzy Nakamura. He starred opposite Tamlyn Tomita in the 1995 AFI short, Requiem, directed by actress Elizabeth Sung. Tashima also played the real-life historical figure, journalist and civil rights advocate Sei Fujii in George Shaw’s and Jeffrey Gee Chin’s short film, Lil Tokyo Reporter. He also played GameKeeper (Mr. Chan) in the film RPG.

Tashima directed, co-wrote and acted in Day of Independence (2003), a half-hour television special for PBS, produced by Lisa Onodera, which received a Regional Emmy Nomination from the NATAS San Francisco/Northern California Chapter, in the category of Historical/Cultural — Program/Special.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Tashima won an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film with producer Chris Donahue, for Visas and Virtue (1997), which he directed, co-wrote (adapting the one-act play by Toyama), and starred in. To produce Visas and Virtue, he co-founded Cedar Grove Productions in 1996, with Toyama and Donahue.

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His stage directing credits include the world premiere of Dan Kwong’s Be Like Water produced by East West Players, in association with Cedar Grove OnStage, in September 2008. He has directed several shows with the Grateful Crane Ensemble, including the world premiere of Soji Kashiwagi’s Nihonmachi: The Place To Be, presented in San Francisco in 2006.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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He is also a stage set designer. He won a 1995 Ovation Award for Best Set Design in a Smaller Theater, for Sweeney Todd, and a 1992 Drama-Logue Award for Scenic Design (shared with Christopher Komuro) for Into The Woods, both at East West Players.

His stage credits include originating roles in Ken Narasaki’s No-No Boy, Chay Yew’s A Language of Their Own (LA Weekly Theater Award for Ensemble Performance, shared with Noel Alumit, Anthony David and Dennis Dun) at Celebration Theatre, Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings at Berkeley Repertory Theatre – on Tour and at Zellerbach Playhouse, (reprised at Intiman Playhouse by Seattle Children’s Theatre, Alliance Theatre Company in Atlanta, and Syracuse Stage), Tim Toyama’s Visas and Virtue, at the Road Theatre Company, and Wakako Yamauchi’s The Memento at East West Players.

Facts & Trivia

Chris Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Chris Tashima celebrates birthday on March 24 of every year.

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