Shizuko Hoshi

Shizuko Hoshi
Occupation(s)	Actress, theatre director
Spouse(s)	Mako Iwamatsu (married until 2006; his death)

Shizuko Hoshi is an American actress and theatre director living in Southern California. She is a graduate of Tokyo Women's College and University of Southern California. She was married to actor Mako Iwamatsu, the founding Artistic Director of East West Players in Los Angeles, and worked closely with the Asian American theatre company from 1965 to 1989.

While at East West Players, she received many awards for performance, directing and choreography, including a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Featured Performance in Wakako Yamauchi's And the Soul Shall Dance, as well as Drama-Logue Awards for Best Director for Hokusai Sketchbooks, Asa ga Kimashita, A Chorus Line and Mishima. Her film credits include Memoirs of a Geisha, Come See the Paradise and M. Butterfly.

She appeared in the indie film, Charlotte Sometimes and narrated the Academy Award winning Live Action Short Film, Visas and Virtue. She has also appeared on television, in such shows as Chicago Hope and M*A*S*H*. In 1995, Hoshi co-directed the English language premiere of the Japanese comedy The Fall Guy off-Broadway in New York City.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Sylvester	Mrs. Daniels
1990	Come See the Paradise	Mrs. Kawamura
1993	M. Butterfly	Comrade Chin
2002	Charlotte Sometimes	Aunt
2005	Memoirs of a Geisha	Sayuri Narration	voice

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972-73	The Bob Newhart Show	Hostess/The Waitress	2 Episodes
1974	Fer-de-lance	Suan Kuroda	TV Movie
1975	Police Story	Bin Han	Episode: "Year of the Dragon: Part 2"
	The Six Million Dollar Man	Japanese Woman	Episode: "The Wolf Boy"
1977	Quincy M.E.	Mom Kamura	Episode: Touch of Death
	Starsky and Hutch	Mrs. Hong	Episode: Manchild on the Streets
1978	My Husband Is Missing	Vice Consul	TV Movie
1974-1979	M*A*S*H	Mrs.Li/Mother/The Mother	4 Episodes
1982	Dangerous Company	Mrs. Hikaru	TV Movie
1983	Baby Sister	Mrs. Chang	TV Movie
1990	Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes	Nurse Yama	TV Movie
1996	Chicago Hope	Baby Doctor	Episode: The Parent Rap
1997	Visas and Virtue	Narrator (as Elderly Mrs. Sugihara)	Short
1998	C-16: FBI		Episode: My Brother's Keeper
1999	Independent Lens	Narrator	Segment "Visas and Virtue"

Other Appearances

Appeared in Philip Kan Gotanda's 1991 play "The Wash" at Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California

Family

She has two daughters (who are both actresses) and three grandchildren.

External links

• Shizuko Hoshi at IMDb