{"id":53348,"date":"2014-07-21T21:09:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethnicelebs.com\/?p=53348"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:50:29","slug":"george-takei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnicelebs.com\/george-takei","title":{"rendered":"George Takei"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_216903\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216903\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53370\" src=\"http:\/\/ethnicelebs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/George-Takei.jpg\" alt=\"13th Annual Movies for Grownups Awards Gala - Arrivals\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-216903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takei in 2014, photo by Prphotos.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Birth Name: Hosato Takei<\/p>\n<p>Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States<\/p>\n<p>Date of Birth: April 20, 1937<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ethnicity: Japanese<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Takei is an American actor, director, author, and activist. He is known for his role as Sulu in the <em>Star Trek<\/em> universe.<\/p>\n<p>He is the son of Fumiko Emily, who was born in Sacramento, of Japanese descent, and Takekuma &#8220;Norman&#8221; Takei, who was born in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>He was named after King George VI of the United Kingdom, who was coronated shortly after his birth. As part of Japanese-American internment, in 1942, George&#8217;s family was sent to the Rohwer War Relocation Center for internment in Rohwer, Arkansas, and later to Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California. George has relatives who were killed in Hiroshima.<\/p>\n<p>George is married to Brad Altman Takei.<\/p>\n<p>George&#8217;s paternal grandfather was named Kisabura Takei.<\/p>\n<p>George&#8217;s paternal grandmother was named Kume Amemiya.<\/p>\n<p>George&#8217;s maternal grandfather was named Benkichi Nakamura.<\/p>\n<p>George&#8217;s maternal grandmother was named Shigeno Masaoka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":53370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1434,131],"tags":[3650,725],"class_list":["post-53348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actoractress","category-t-celebs","tag-b1937","tag-japanese"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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