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Name: Miyoshi Umeki  
   
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Date of Birth: 3rd April 1929
   
Place of Birth: Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
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Miyoshi Umeki (born on April 3, 1929 in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan) is an actress.

Umeki began her career as a nightclub singer in Japan before moving to the United States. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her first film role, Sayonara (1957), becoming the first Asian actor to win an Oscar.

She only appeared in four more films during her career including Flower Drum Song (1961), for which she had received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, for her performance in the Broadway production in 1959. She also played the part of Mrs Livingstone in the television series The Courtship of Eddie's Father from 1969 until 1972.

Since then she has essentially disappeared and it is unlikely that anyone in Hollywood even knows where she is.

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