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Touch Of Death (crossover Event)
"Touch of Death" is a two-part crossover event between ''Hawaii Five-0'' and '' NCIS: Los Angeles'' that aired on CBS. The event began on April 30, 2012, with the ''Hawaii Five-0'' episode "Pa Make Loa" which is Hawaiian for "Touch of Death." It continued on May 1, 2012, with the ''NCIS: Los Angeles'' episode "Touch of Death". Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Chris O'Donnell, and LL Cool J appeared in both parts of the event as Danny Williams, Chin Ho Kelly, G. Callen, and Sam Hanna, respectively. The episodes both received mostly positive ratings and received high viewing figures in multiple countries. Cast and characters Main The following contains a list of actors receiving main billing in the crossover event: Guests The following contains a list of notable guests appearing in the crossover event: Plot Part 1: "Pa Make Loa" The episode opens with Bryan Palmer attempting to enter his ex-wife's house. The woman calls 911 and informs them of the situation. The Honolulu Police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenkov-verse
The ''Lenkov-verse'' is a media franchise that consists of a group of three interconnected television reboots that share a fictional universe, and their related media. All three of the television series, '' Hawaii Five-0'', ''MacGyver'', and '' Magnum P.I.'', are developed by Peter M. Lenkov who also served as the showrunner on the series. They are each American crime dramas that aired on CBS. ''Hawaii Five-0'' revolves around a task force, led by Steve McGarrett, that investigates crimes in Hawaii. ''MacGyver'' centers around Angus MacGyver who uses nonviolent methods to keep the world safe, with the help of a team of undercover government agents. ''Magnum P.I.'' follows private investigator Thomas Magnum, who solves crimes in Hawaii with the help of his friends. The universe is also connected to the so-called '' Bellisario-verse'', which consists of the entire ''NCIS'' franchise and ''JAG'', via two direct crossovers between ''Hawaii Five-0'' and '' NCIS: Los Angeles''. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Hanna
Sam Hanna (portrayed by LL Cool J) is a fictional character in the show '' NCIS: Los Angeles''. He is a former U.S. Navy SEAL and a Senior NCIS Special Agent. He first appeared in the '' NCIS'' season six episode "Legend (Part I)". Background and characterization The son of a Marine colonel, Osama "Sam" Hanna attended a military school and excelled in football, playing wide receiver. Like the actor, Hanna is a native of New York City. Outside his job, Hanna has a varied range of interests, including boxing, origami, acting, vinyl records, and antique cars. He also tends to follow the latest health food and fitness fads. He suffers from coulrophobia (fear of clowns) and has a fear of maggots. Family Michelle is first introduced in the season 4 episode "Rude Awakenings". It is revealed that they fell in love when they worked together on a failed Joint Task Force mission to capture Isaak Sidorov, a Russian arms dealer. She had managed to successfully infiltrate Sidorov's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Yang (producer)
Brian Yang (born October 28, 1973) is an American actor and producer, most known for his role as Charlie Fong in '' Hawaii Five-0''. Yang was born in 1973 and grew up in Columbus, Ohio. Yang was also raised in the Bay Area, attending University of California Berkeley where he studied biology and dramatic arts. His parents are immigrants from Taiwan. He speaks both English and Mandarin. Yang is married to filmmaker Nadine Truong. Film and television work In addition to playing Charlie Fong on '' Hawaii Five-0'', Yang has also starred in films such as ''The Man with the Iron Fists'' as Hyena, Quentin Lee's ''The People I've Slept With'' as Jefferson (Archie Kao)'s right-hand man (and was also an Executive Producer of the film), Alice Wu's '' Saving Face'' as Little Yu, Joan Chen's love interest, Michael Kang's ''West 32nd'' as Jahnkeh, and in the upcoming film, ''Someone I Used to Know'', directed by Nadine Truong and written by West Liang, which he also produced. Yang wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Wily
Taylor Wily (born Teila Tuli, June 14, 1968) is an American actor, former sumo wrestler and mixed martial artist. He is from Laie, Hawaii and is of American Samoan descent. He is commonly known for his recurring role as Kamekona Tupuola on '' Hawaii Five-0''. Sumo career In March 1987, Wily was recruited by former ''sekiwake'' Takamiyama Daigorō, another Hawaiian, and joined Azumazeki stable, which Takamiyama had founded the previous year. He was given the ''shikona'' (sumo name) of Takamikuni. He was unbeaten in his first 14 official bouts, winning two consecutive ''yūshō'' or tournament championships. Weighing nearly , he was one of the largest wrestlers in sumo. In March 1988, he was promoted to the third highest ''makushita'' division, and became the first foreign born wrestler to ever win the championship in that division. In the same month, future ''yokozuna'' Akebono Tarō, also from Hawaii, joined Azumazeki stable. As the highest ranking wrestler in the stable, he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renée Felice Smith
Renée Felice Smith (born January 16, 1985) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Nell Jones on '' NCIS: Los Angeles'', since joining the series in 2010. Early life Smith was born in New York City of mixed Irish-Italian descent. She attended Patchogue-Medford High School on Long Island, New York, as well as the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, graduating with honors, double majoring in journalism and minoring in history, Stonestreet Studios Conservatory and the Lee Strasberg Institute. While at NYU, she co-created the student dance troupe, Pulse Dance Project. Career Smith's first acting job was a national television commercial for Dannon yogurt in 1991 at age six. Smith started off in theatre, having made her debut in Second Stage's ''Wildflower''. She was cast for a sitcom on The CW directed by Amy Sherman-Palladino, tentatively titled ''Wyoming'', but only a pilot was produced since the project was not picked up by the network. The pilot movi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrett Foa
Barrett Conrad Foa (born September 18, 1977) is an American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor, with over a decade in Broadway theatre shows. He has played many leading characters in off-Broadway and regional theatre productions. He has appeared in multiple Broadway shows, including '' Mamma Mia!'' and as Princeton and Rod in '' Avenue Q''. From 2009 to 2021, he portrayed Eric Beale on the military police procedural '' NCIS: Los Angeles''. Early life and education Barrett Conrad Foa was born and raised in Manhattan, New York. He is the son of Conrad Foa, an international insurance broker, former musician and Army veteran, and mother Linda Rimanich, an executive, editor and author. Foa's parents are both Manhattan natives, community and civic activists, philanthropists, and organizers in the Democratic party. Foa graduated from The Dalton School, a prestigious K-12 college preparatory school in New York City. His interest in musical theater developed during his high school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Christian Olsen
Eric Christian Olsen (born May 31, 1977), is an American actor. He is known for his portrayals of Investigator Marty Deeks on the CBS television series '' NCIS: Los Angeles'', and of Austin in the film ''Not Another Teen Movie''. Early life Olsen was born in Eugene, Oregon, the son of Jeanne (née Donstad), a non-denominational chaplain, and Paul V. Olsen, a professor of English, and head track and cross country coach of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. He has an older brother, David, who acts as his stunt double; David is married to actress and Olsen's '' NCIS: Los Angeles'' costar Daniela Ruah. Olsen is of Norwegian descent. Olsen spent most of his childhood in Bettendorf, Iowa, and attended Bettendorf Middle and High School, where he pursued interests such as sports, Japanese, and Chinese. In addition to many local theatre performances, Olsen trained in improv with ComedySportz Quad Cities and later joined the cast. Career Olsen's first starring role was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kensi Blye
Kensi Marie Blye (; portrayed by Daniela Ruah) is a fictional character in the show '' NCIS: Los Angeles''. She is a Junior Field Agent in the NCIS Office of Special Projects Team stationed in Los Angeles. She first appeared in the ''NCIS'' season one episode "Identity". Casting Kensi was originally named "Kensi Lo" and described as "a twenty-something Asian-American whose academic record in forensics and criminology got her recruited young by the Feds"; a change was needed when Portuguese actress Daniela Ruah was cast. Like G. Callen, Sam Hanna, Eric Beale and Nate Getz, Kensi was first introduced in the backdoor pilot "Legend" from '' NCIS''. Background Personal background Kensi Marie Blye was born in San Diego, California on July 29, 1982. She came from a U.S. Marine Corps family. At some point her father was stationed at Camp Lejeune during her childhood. She is fluent in Portuguese, French, and Spanish, can lip-read and knows Morse code. In the episode "Borderline" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Ruah
Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah (born December 2, 1983) is an American-Portuguese actress and film director best known for playing NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye in the CBS police procedural series '' NCIS: Los Angeles''. Early life Ruah was born in Boston, U.S., to Jewish parents from Portugal, where her mother is an otologist and her father is an ENT surgeon. When Ruah was 5, the family moved back to Portugal, where she attended St Julian's School and, at 16, began acting in telenovelas. She won a Portuguese-television dance competition. Ruah moved to the U.K at the age of 18 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in performing arts from London Metropolitan University. She returned to Portugal where she continued acting, and in 2007 moved to New York City to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Ruah stated that she grew up in an environment that was both Sephardic and Ashkenazi; her father is of Portuguese-Jewish ancestry, and her mother's Jewish roots are in Russia, U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Hunt
Lydia Susanna "Linda" Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American actress of stage and screen. She made her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in ''Popeye'' (1980). Hunt portrayed the male character Billy Kwan in '' The Year of Living Dangerously'' (1982) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first person to win an Oscar for portraying a character of the opposite sex. Hunt has also appeared in films such as ''Dune'' (1984), '' Silverado'' (1985), '' Kindergarten Cop'' (1990), '' Pocahontas'' (1995), '' Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World'' (1998), and ''Stranger Than Fiction'' (2006). Hunt has had a successful career on television and in voice-over work, notably being the narrator for the Ancient Greek mythology themed ''God of War'' video game series. From 1997 to 2002, she played the recurring role of Judge Zoey Hiller on ''The Practice'' and played Commander Chennault on the sci-fi series ''Space Rangers''. Beginning in 2009, she has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masi Oka
is a Japanese actor, producer, and digital effects artist who became widely known for starring in NBC's '' Heroes'' as Hiro Nakamura and in CBS's '' Hawaii Five-0'' as Doctor Max Bergman. Early life Oka was born in Tokyo, Japan, to Setsuko Oka. His parents divorced when he was one month old; he was raised in a single parent family and has never met his father. He was six years old when his mother and he moved to Los Angeles from Japan. At age eight, he appeared on the CBS-TV game show '' Child's Play''. In 1987, a 12-year-old Oka was featured as one of several children on the cover of ''Time'' magazine, for the article "Those Asian-American Whiz Kids." Though he was not featured in the article itself, he was acquainted with the photographer who conducted the shoot. In 1988, he placed fourth in the California state MATHCOUNTS competition and was one of the four students to represent the state of California in the national competition. Oka attended Brown University, where he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Park (actress)
Grace Park (born March 14, 1974) is an American-Canadian actress and model, known for her roles in the science-fiction series ''Battlestar Galactica'', as Shannon Ng in the Canadian teen soap opera series '' Edgemont'', as Officer Kono Kalakaua in the police procedural '' Hawaii Five-0'', and as Katherine Kim in ''A Million Little Things''. Early life Born in Los Angeles, (Gale document no. GALE, K1650007575, accessed October 17, 2011). Park moved with her family to Canada when she was 22 months old. She was raised in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kerrisdale. Park was born to Korean parents. She graduated from Magee Secondary School in 1992 and holds a degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia. Career At age 25, Park was cast as high school student Shannon Ng on the Canadian teen soap opera '' Edgemont''."It's Evening in America". ''Vanity Fair''. May 2012. p. 152. She appeared in the miniseries ''Battlestar Galactica'' in 2003 and continued as the same o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
