Anzu Lawson is an American actress, singer, songwriter, comedian, playwright, director and screenwriter. She has also been credited under the names Cristina Lawson, Cristina Anzu Lawson and Anzu Cristina.

Early life

Anzu's American father was in the Navy, stationed in Japan, when he met and married her mother, Keiko. The family moved to Cerritos,

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where they lived until Anzu was 15 years old, at which point the two girls moved to Japan with their mother after Anzu was scouted by a modeling agency and offered a 3-year modeling contract. After meeting Jon Anderson of the band YES in Japan. Anzu began recording

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. She was signed to Avex Records – Japan where she reached Number #1 on the Japanese Billboard Charts in 2003 with her cover of "The Rose."

Music

Lawson was signed to Japanese a label where she reached number 1 on the Japanese Billboard charts with her cover of the single "The Rose" on Avex Records. She also reached number 1 on the European Dance charts with her single "Sweet Clarity" with a project called Aquabox produced by

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. She has also sung on multiple movie soundtracks produced by

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and

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such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Sinbad'', and '' Illegal Tender''. She also wrote the song "I Am Onto You" for '' No Way Back'', starring

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and directed by

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. Her first screen test was at age 8 to play Mako's granddaughter for an East West Players film production and she starred in her first American movie opposite

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in ''

American Yakuza ''American Yakuza'' is a 1993 American crime film directed by Frank Cappello and starring Viggo Mortensen, Ryo Ishibashi, Michael Nouri, Franklyn Ajaye, Yuji Okumoto, Anzu Lawson, and Robert Forster. The screenplay by John Allen Nelson and Max ...

'', directed by

. Frank Cappello also directed the dark comedy He Was A Quiet Man, where he cast Anzu opposite Christian Slater, to play his neighbor. She was nominated "

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" for her role as Yoko Ono in 2014 at the

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in the musical ''Rock and Roll's Greatest Lovers''.

Comedy

As a stand-up comic, Anzu performs in comedy festivals as well as The Hollywood and Brea Improv, The Laugh Factory, The Ha-Ha Café, The Comedy Store and The IceHouse Pasadena.

Filmography

Lawson's TV and film credits are below:

TV

Film

Video games

References

External links

Official site
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