1886
Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor and producer (died 1973)
Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor and producer (died 1973)
Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor and producer (died 1973)
Sessue Hayakawa
Japanese actor (1886–1973)
- Born
- 1886
Kintarō Hayakawa, known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was a popular star and matinée idol in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome" good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood.
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