Greg Watanabe

Greg Watanabe

Greg Watanabe (born November 8, 1967) is an American actor who played Isaac on the MyNetworkTV serial Watch Over Me. He appears in the independent films, Philip Kan Gotanda's Life Tastes Good, Only the Brave and Americanese. He is a founding member of the Asian American sketch comedy troupe, 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors. Watanabe received a 2009 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award nomination for Featured Performance in The Happy Ones at South Coast Repertory. In 2010 he appeared in the world premiere of Ken Narasaki's No-No Boy. In October 2015, Watanabe made his Broadway debut in Allegiance: A New American Musical at the Longacre Theatre in New York City with co-stars George Takei, Lea Salonga, Michael K. Lee and Telly Leung. His older sister is American bass guitarist & sousaphonist Miiko Watanabe whose many credits include Screaming Sirens, American Girls, Eggtooth, Moris Tepper, Holly Vincent, Maypole, Gwen Stefani, Tracy Chapman, The Clear, Brazzaville, The Martinis, Lady Zep & Dave Navarro.

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