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Miiko Taka

Miiko Taka was an American actress, popular for her film and television roles from the late 1950s until the early 1980s. Her best known role was as an elegant Japanese dancer starring with Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara. She also acted in several other films and TV shows with fellow performers such as Miyoshi Umeki, James Garner, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and Toshirō Mifune.

Early years
Taka was born on July 24, 1925 in Seattle, but raised in Los Angeles as a Nisei;{{cite magazine | last = Capote | first = Truman | author-link = Truman Capote | title = The Duke in His Domain | magazine = The New Yorker | date = November 9, 1957 ==Career==
Career
After Audrey Hepburn, director Joshua Logan's first choice for the role of Hana-ogi, turned him down, he looked to cast an unknown actress. ==Personal life and death==
Personal life and death
Taka married Japanese-American actor Dale Ishimoto in Baltimore, Maryland in 1944, and they had one son, Greg Shikata, who works in the film industry, and one daughter. They divorced in 1958. Taka married Los Angeles television news director Lennie Blondheim in 1963. She resided in Las Vegas, Nevada. Following Blondheim's death in 2002, she married Reginald Hsu in 2003. Taka died on January 4, 2023, at the age of 97. She is interred at Rose Hills Memorial Park. ==Motion pictures==
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