Daisuke Tsuji

Early life Daisuke was born in Kuwait to Japanese parents, where his father worked as an architect. His brother Hisayasu, or Yasu, Tsuji is a documentary producer and editor. At two years old Daisuke moved to Chiba in Japan and at eight years old he moved to Sacramento, California. He attended the Rio Americano High School and American River College. He earned a bachelor in Theatre Arts at UCLA.

Career

Tsuji worked at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in The Grove at Farmers Market in Los Angeles. He started working at two theatre companies, Tim Robbins' The Actors' Gang and The Three Chairs Theatre Company. He was a party clown before he became a professional clown at Cirque du Soleil. went on several tours in the US and internationally such as Speak Theater Arts' and Cirque du Soleil's Dralion. Tsuji created his own clown shows called Death and Giggles, Limerence, and Clowns are Peoples Too. In 2006, he played a cave soldier in Letters from Iwo Jima. In 2009, Tsuji wrote and directed Monkey Madness, which was produced by The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble. The same year, he wrote and starred in Death and Giggles. In 2010, he became a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2010, and appeared in more than 10 productions. In 2013, he returned to Los Angeles to focus on television and films. In 2019, he was Chief Warrant Officer Lee in the Love, Death & Robots TV series on Netflix. He did voice acting for the video games Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018) and Prey: Mooncrash (2018). In 2017, Tsuji played William Shakespeare in the three-act play Imogen Says Nothing.

In 2020, he was the voice actor and face of the protagonist Jin Sakai in the action-adventure game Ghost of Tsushima. He played the Crown Prince Akihito in the TV series The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019) on Amazon Prime. In 2019, he won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in Cambodian Rock Band at South Coast Rep!.

Filmography Film

Video games

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