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    "title": "Nobu McCarthy",
    "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-PeopleDisplay\">\n  <table class=\"infobox\" width=\"200px;\">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Name\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Nobu McCarthy\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Born\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      November 13 1934\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Died\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      April 6 2002\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Birth Location\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Canada\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Generational Identifier\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      <p>\n       <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Issei/\" title=\"Issei\">\n        Issei\n       </a>\n      </p>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-People\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   FirstName:Nobu;\nLastName:McCarthy;\nDisplayName:Nobu McCarthy;\nBirthDate:1934-11-13;\nDeathDate:2002-04-06;\nBirthLocation:Canada;\nGender:Female;\nEthnicity:JA;\nGenerationIdentifier:Issei;\nNationality:;\nExternalResourceLink:;\nPrimaryGeography:;\nReligion:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n  Actress and artistic director of East West Players. Born Nobu Atsumi in Canada, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, she went to Japan as a baby and was raised there, training in ballet and as a singer. She became a model and beauty queen and married an American army sergeant named David McCarthy in 1955, moving to the United States.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She was \"discovered\" on a Little Tokyo street in Los Angeles and won a role in the 1958 movie\n  <i>\n   The Geisha Boy\n  </i>\n  starring Jerry Lewis, even though she barely spoke English. This led to a succession of Hollywood roles over the next decade, most of them in stereotypical \"Oriental\" roles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After a 1970 divorce, she became active in the Asian American theater scene, appearing in the first production of Momoko Iko's pioneering play on the Japanese American incarceration,\n  <i>\n   [\n   <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Gold%20Watch%20(play)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    https://resourceguide.densho.org/Gold%20Watch%20(play)/\n   </a>\n   Gold Watch]\n  </i>\n  , in 1972 and many productions at East West Players. She also played one of the lead roles in the landmark television movie\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/Farewell_to_Manzanar_(film)/\" title=\"Farewell to Manzanar (film)\">\n    Farewell to Manzanar\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  in 1976. She also appeared as Miyagi's love interest in\n  <i>\n   The Karate Kid, Part II\n  </i>\n  in 1986 and in the 1988 film version of\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Philip_Kan_Gotanda/\" title=\"Philip Kan Gotanda\">\n   Philip Kan Gotanda\n  </a>\n  's\n  <i>\n   The Wash\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  In 1989, she took over as artistic director of East West Players after founding artistic director\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Mako/\" title=\"Mako\">\n   Mako\n  </a>\n  's resignation, serving in that capacity until 1993. She remained active in the Japanese American community and continued with her acting career, while also teaching drama at California State University, Los Angeles and UCLA. She died of an aortal aneurysm while on location for a movie in Brazil in 2002.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Brian_Niiya/\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n    For More Information\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Hwang, David Henry. \"Nobu McCarthy: 1934–2002.\"\n    <i>\n     American Theatre\n    </i>\n    September 2002, pp. 15–16.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Kurahashi, Yuko.\n    <i>\n     Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players\n    </i>\n    . New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Morioka-Steffens, Tamayo Irene. \"Asian Pacific American Identities: An Historical Perspective Through the Theatre Productions of the East West Players, 1965 to 2000. Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate School, 2003.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Nobu McCarthy, 67, Artistic Director and Actress, Dies.\"\n    <i>\n     New York Times\n    </i>\n    , April 10, 2002,\n    <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/10/obituaries/10MCCA.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/10/obituaries/10MCCA.html\n    </a>\n    .\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Shirley, Don. \"Nobu McCarthy, 67; Actress on Stage and Film.\"\n    <i>\n     Los Angeles Times\n    </i>\n    , April 9, 2002,\n    <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/09/local/me-nobu9\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/09/local/me-nobu9\n    </a>\n    .\n   </p>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240418160811\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.011 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.015 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 122/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 1888/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 217/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   10.279      1 -total\n 72.49%    7.451      1 Template:Databox-People\n 13.32%    1.369      1 Template:Published\n 13.32%    1.369      1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2535-0!canonical and timestamp 20240418160811 and revision id 36184\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>",
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