Superhero Profiles

Masi Oka is Heroes’ Hiro Nakamura

by Grace on November 27th, 2006

Actor: Masayori “Masi” Oka
Heroes Character: Hiro Nakamura
Heroes Ability: ability to affect space-time continuum, stopping or slowing time relative to himself or other things through sheer force of will.

Bio: Born December 27, 1974. He graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor Of Science degree in computer science and math, with a minor in theater arts. He’s a math wiz (see Time magazine cover below 1987) and has an IQ of 180+!
As an actor, he’s had several appearances in quite a few shows and is filming the movie Balls of Fury, to be released next year. Outside of acting, his job at George Lucas’ Oscar-winning special effects house Industrial Light & Magic lets him provide ILM with technology for groundbreaking effects to more than 30 films.

As Hiro Nakamura: He was one of the first to embrace his destiny as a hero.

An office worker living in Tokyo, one day he discovers his power to manipulate time and space. His first feat was teleporting himself to the Times Square, New York City into the future, where he chances upon a comic book the 9th Wonders by Isaac Mendez chronicling what he just did.
He witnesses a cataclysmic explosion leveling the city before teleporting himself back to Tokyo. And that began his heroic journey to save the world. His ability to travel in time has allowed him to cross paths with Peter Petrelli both in the present and as a futuristic warrior; saved D.L. Hawkins and his son Micah from a burning car; and going back in time to save Charlie, a sweet waitress who also seemed to have powers.

Photos:

From Wikipedia: Time Magazine cover, August 31, 1987 (Masi is the blue kid on the left)

From Brown University. Masi spearheaded a networking group for new graduates interested in careers in entertainment.

From Broadway Buzz, Masi watched the play Jersey Boys where a former Brown classmate, Tony Award-winning Best Actor of 2006,John Lloyd Young, played one of the Beach Boys. Sweet of him to support old friends!

[via NBC, Wikipedia]

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