Sara Tanaka (born November 21, 1978) is an
American
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physician
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and former
film actress
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. She is best known for her roles in ''
Rushmore'', ''
Old School'', and ''
Race the Sun''.
Biography
Tanaka was born in
Huntington,
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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Film and television
* '' ...
. Her brother, Alessandro Tanaka, is a screenwriter and actor. She graduated from
Brown University
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in 2000 with a degree in human
biology
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. She graduated from
Pritzker School of Medicine
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at the
University of Chicago
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in 2008 with an
M.D.
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degree.
Sara Michiko Tanaka Carroll
/ref> She completed her internal medicine residency program at the University of Chicago
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. She completed her cardiology fellowship program at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in 2015.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
External links
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1978 births
Living people
American film actresses
American women physicians
Brown University alumni
American actresses of Japanese descent
American film actors of Asian descent
American physicians of Japanese descent
Actresses from New York (state)
People from Long Island
Pritzker School of Medicine alumni
21st-century American women
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