Kiralee Hayashi
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Kiralee Hayashi | |
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| Born | Hawaii, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2007–present |
| Website | kiraleehayashi |
Kiralee M. Hayashi is an American stunt woman, actress,[1] and gymnast.
She is known for her work on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction, and The Book of Eli.[2]
Background
[edit]Hayashi was born and raised in Hawaii.[1] She is of Japanese, Portuguese, English & Irish descent.[1] Her success as a gymnast gained her a full scholarship to UCLA,[1] where she studied neuroscience.[3]
Academia
[edit]While at UCLA she did research in the Paul Thompson's group at Laboratory of Neuro Image (LONI). She co-authored several papers on neuroscience topics.[4]
She has a low Erdős number of just three through the publication Brain surface parameterization using Riemann surface structure which was coauthored by Shing-Tung Yau.[5] Yau published On sampling Markov chains together with Ronald Graham, and Graham authored On Sum of Fibonacci Numbers together with Paul Erdős.[6]
Gymnastics
[edit]While at UCLA she was also a notable gymnast.[3] One of the most highly recruited freshmen her graduating year. She garnered 9 All-American titles (both first and second team). And was a National Balance Beam champion. She was Pac-10 gymnast of the year in 1999 and Pac-10 Conference Medalist[a] for 1998-99, her senior year.[7][8] And was a two-time Pac-10 All-Academic selection. Hayashi was a finalist for the AAI American Award, given annually to the nation's most outstanding all-around senior gymnast.
Filmography
[edit]Films
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2003 | Wasabi Tuna | "Sexy Asian Girl #2"[9] | |
| 2007 | Balls of Fury | "Hot Asian Servant Girl"[10] | Uncredited |
| 2007 | Haunted Forest | Satinka[11] | |
| 2010 | The Book of Eli | Stuntwoman | |
| 2011 | The Green Hornet | Stuntwoman[12] | Uncredited |
| 2011 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 | Stuntwoman | |
| 2012 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 | Stuntwoman | |
| 2014 | Transformers: Age of Extinction | ||
| 2016 | Independence Day: Resurgence | Stuntwoman |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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| Grey's Anatomy | Tracey Mitchell | |||
| Supah Ninjas |
Notes
[edit]- ^ A Conference Medal is awarded annually to each member institution's outstanding male and female student-athlete based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Kiralee Hayashi - Stunt Double". HawaiiNewsNow.
- ^ Kiralee Hayashi at IMDB.
- ^ a b "UCLA Gymnastics Season Wrap-Up". UCLA Athletics. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- ^ "Kiralee M Hayashi's scientific contributions in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain". ResearchGate. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- ^ Yalin Wang, Xianfeng Gu, Kiralee M. Hayashi, Tony F. Chan, Paul M. Thompson, Shing-Tung Yau (2005). "Brain surface parameterization using Riemann surface structure". Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 8 (Pt 2): 657–655. doi:10.1007/11566489_81. ISBN 978-3-540-29326-2. PMID 16686016.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Paul Erdős and Ronald Graham (1972). "On Sums of Fibonacci Numbers". Fibonacci Quarterly. 10: 249–254.
- ^ "Hayashi Awarded Pac-10 Conference Medal". UCLA Bruins. 1999-06-09. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
- ^ "Stuart, Hayashi Awarded Pac-10 Conference Medals". UCLA. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- ^ "Wasabi Tuna (2003) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.
- ^ "Balls of Fury (2007) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.
- ^ "Haunted Forest (2007)". IMDb.
- ^ "The Green Hornet (2011) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.