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Gedde Watanabe
Age: 54 Height: 5' 7"
Birth Place: Ogden, Utah, USA Born: Jun. 26th, 1955
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TRIVIA:
- Begin his show business career as a street singer.
- His mother was interned by the United States during World War II.
- Grew up in San Francisco's Chinatown.
- In his audition for the film _Sixteen Candles (1984)_ (qv), he went through the entire process pretending he did not speak any English, imitating a Korean friend. After he was finished, he eloquently thanked the casting director in perfect English. He was soon cast.
- Studied at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California, USA.
- For _Mulan (1998)_ (qv), he had another person do his singing voice because his own voice was too good.
- In his role in the original cast of the Stephen Sondheim musical "Pacific Overtures," he performed the song "Someone in a Tree." Watanabe is arguably best known as the character "Long Duk Dong" from _Sixteen Candles (1984)_ (qv), in which he famously leaped out of a tree and onto Michael Schoeffling's character Jake.
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