Hiro Kanagawa

ActorWriter Oct 13 (age 62) Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan 1992–2025 (33 year career)

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Biography

Hironobu Kanagawa (金川弘敦, Kanagawa Hironobu, October 13, 1963) is a Japanese-Canadian actor and playwright based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has appeared in numerous high-profile films and television series shot in the Vancouver area, including Smallville, Caprica, Godzilla, The Man in the High Castle, Altered Carbon, iZombie, Legends of Tomorrow, Heroes Reborn and Kim's Convenience and was a writer on Da Vinci's City Hall. As a voice-over artist, he was the original English-language voic…

Known For

Film

The Age of Adaline

Kenneth

Film

Fifty Shades Freed

Detective Clark

Film

Godzilla

Hayato

Film

Midway

Makigumo Captain

Film

Orphan: First Kill

Detective Donnan

Film

War

Yoshido

Film

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Dr. Ikegawa

Film

The 6th Day

Team Doctor

Filmography

Acting (142)

Movies (68)

Playdate

2025

as Colonel Kurtz

6.0

Akashi

2025

as Cab Driver

Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama

2024

as Tamio Wakayama / Narrator (voice)

Orphan: First Kill

2022

as Detective Donnan

6.6

Every Breath You Take

as Dr. Toth

Crisis

as Dr. Ishiyama

Needle in a Timestack

as Tattersall

The Tailor

as Tailor

Deeper I Go

Midway

as Makigumo Captain

Alive

as Dr. Nakamura

Fifty Shades Freed

2018

as Detective Clark

6.7

Love, Once and Always

as Niven

A Twist of Christmas

as Chester

Akashi

Hailey Dean Mysteries: Murder, With Love

as Al Sandburg

The Age of Adaline

as Kenneth

Godzilla

as Hayato

Assault on Wall Street

as TV Host

Grave Halloween

as Jin

Down River

as Aki's Father

The Company You Keep

as FBI Agent Kanagawa

Doomsday Prophecy

as Dr. Yates

Deck the Halls

as Harry Saito

The King of Fighters

as Saisyu Kusanagi

Playing for Keeps

as Henry Wong

Hardwired

as Dr. Steckler

The Day the Earth Stood Still

as Dr. Ikegawa

War

as Yoshido

The Last Mimzy

as Scientist

Spymate

as Japanese Chairman

The Entrance

as Detective Nolan

Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes: Vol. 1

as Mr. Fantastic

Bob the Butler

as Japanese Plumber

Elektra

as Meizumi

Hush

as Dr. Berke

Ladies Night

as Mr. Muriyami

Best Friends

as Detective Myashiro

4.2

Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat: Feline, Friends and Family

2003

as Shan-Tai-Yeh the Foolish Magistrate

Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat: Cat Tales and Celebrations

2003

as Shan-Tai-Yeh the Foolish Magistrate

Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat: Sagwa's Storybook World

2003

as Shan-Tai-Yeh the Foolish Magistrate

First to Die

as Dr. Shimera

Extreme Ops

as Mr. Imahara

Living with the Dead

as Frank the Business Consultant

5.3

Damaged Care

2002

as Dr. Kitano

Chaos and Desire

2002

as Kiyoshi

5.1

Josie and the Pussycats

2001

as Japanese Delegate

5.8

Replicant

2001

as Lab Video Technician #1

Touched by a Killer

as Steve Tunaki

Class Warfare

as Mr. Tanaka

Best in Show

as Pet Shop Owner

The 6th Day

as Team Doctor

Epicenter

as Agent Ted

The Guilty

as Police Detective

Protection

as Don

Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying

as Controller

American Dragons

as Nakai

Tricks

as Matsuba

Bliss

as Doctor

Excess Baggage

as Jon

Bloodhounds II

as Detective

For Hope

as Dr. Black

Crying Freeman

as Temple Yakuza

The Hunted

as Lieutenant

Hideaway

as Nurse Nakamura

A Child Is Missing

as Agent Kurosaka

My Name Is Kate

as Doctor

Born Too Soon

as Resident

Television (74)

Shōgun

2024

as Igarashi Yoshimoto

8.4

Avatar the Last Airbender

as Fire Lord Sozin

Sight Unseen

as Roman Hayashi

The Night Agent

as FBI Director Willett

7.7

The Last of Us

2023

as Carlisle

8.4

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

as Headmaster

The Recruit

as Kenta Nakano

Pachinko

as Goto

So Help Me Todd

as Alistair Song

Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan

as Narrator

Upload

as Det. Sato

Helstrom

as Father Sean Okamoto

6.7

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

as Dr. Hamara

See

as Lord Unoa

The Order

as Detective Hayashi

Altered Carbon

as Captain Tanaka

Impulse

as Man Thrown Off Roof

The Good Doctor

as Paul Nakano

Star Trek: Discovery

as Dr. Hirai

Designated Survivor

as Richard Kim

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

2016

as Director Wilbur Burnett

Timeless

as Agent Kondo

Colony

as Man in Diner

Kim's Convenience

as Pastor Choi

The Man in the High Castle

as Taishi Okamura

iZombie

as Lieutenant Suzuki

The Magicians

as Professor March

Dark Matter

as Emperor Ishida Tetsuda

Heroes Reborn

as Hachiro Otomo

Zoo

as Curtis

The Returned

as Doctor Hiromoto

The Whispers

as team member 1 (Brent)

The 100

as Council Member #3

Bates Motel

as Fumhiro Kurata

Almost Human

as Recollectionist

The Tomorrow People

as Corbin

Delete

as Black Ops #3

Spooksville

as Mr. Moonbeam

Arrow

as Neil Lamb

Continuum

as Dr. Ted Gibson

Emily Owens, M.D.

as Nobu Chiba

Human Target

as Lt. Peale

Caprica

as Cyrus Xander

The Listener

as Supervisor

Fringe

as Executor

Sanctuary

as Ark-Fong Li

Reaper

as Morris

Masters of Science Fiction

2007

6.2

Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes

2006

as Mr. Fantastic (voice)

Blade: The Series

Intelligence

Supernatural

as Game Show Host

Criminal Minds

as Seattle ASAC

Da Vinci's City Hall

The 4400

as Agent Park

Smallville

as Principal Kwan

The Lone Gunmen

Special Unit 2

as Madison

Sagwa The Chinese Siamese Cat

Dark Angel

as Theo

Andromeda

as General Burma

Seven Days

First Wave

as John Tran

Cold Squad

Da Vinci's Inquest

Stargate SG-1

as M. Wayne

Millennium

as Agent Takahashi

The Sentinel

as Furukawa

The Outer Limits

as Tali

Sliders

as Henry

Viper

as Otomo

The X-Files

as Peter Tanaka

Highlander: The Series

1992

as Akira Yoshida

7.4

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures

1992

as Elvis #2

6.1

Crew (1)

Television (1)

Da Vinci's City Hall

2005

Writer

7.0