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Hiroyuki Sanada
Born: 12th Oct 1960 Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Dept: Acting
Hiroyuki Sanada (真田 広之, Sanada Hiroyuki, born Hiroyuki Shimosawa (下澤 廣之, Shimosawa Hiroyuki); 12 October 1960) is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. Before breaking in to the movie business, he trained at Sonny Chiba’s Japan Action Club hoping to one day become a martial arts action film star. Sanada appeared in many action films in the 70s and early 80s, but as it became clear he was actually a talented and well-rounded actor, he was able to branch out into all different types of roles in every genre. Today he is best known in the west for his involvement in big-budget Hollywood productions such as The Last Samurai and Rush Hour 3.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 128
Film: 94 (73%)
Television: 34 (27%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, War, Talk, Documentary, War & Politics, Western, Family, Animation, TV Movie, Music, Kids, Reality
Filmography
2026
The fan favorite champions—now joined by Johnny Cage himself—are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defea ... view
Character:
Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion
Feb 2024 (first aired)
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of ... view
Character:
Yoshii Toranaga (10 ep.)
2023
With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face ... view
Character:
Shimazu
2022
Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as La ... view
Character:
The Elder
2022
Join the likes of Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Florence Pugh, and Vincent D’Onofrio as they reveal how Marvel Studios’ “Hawkeye” was conce ... view
Character:
Akihiko (archive footage)
Nov 2021 (first aired)
Former Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-y ... view
Character:
Akihiko (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 ep.)
2021
Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest ... view
Character:
Bly Tanaka
2021
Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth ... view
Character:
Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion
2020
War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities. ... view
Character:
Mitsuo Yamazaki
Sep 2019 (first aired)
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are bea ... view
Character:
Self (2 ep.)
2019
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaini ... view
Character:
Akihiko
2018
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe. ... view
Character:
Kawabata
2017
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial lif ... view
Character:
Sho Murakami
Oct 2016 (first aired)
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past ... view
Character:
Musashi (4 ep.)
Sep 2015 (first aired)
Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclect ... view
Character:
Self - Guest (1 ep.)
2015
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he re ... view
Character:
Tamiki Umezaki
2015
Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over ... view
Character:
Sumo (voice)
Jul 2014 (first aired)
An astronaut returns home from a year long solo mission in space. She tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experien ... view
Character:
Hideki Yasumoto (13 ep.)
Jun 2014 (first aired)
Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the ... view
Character:
Takehaya (9 ep.)
Jan 2014 (first aired)
Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic ... view
Character:
Dr. Hiroshi Hataki (26 ep.)
2013
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master ... view
Character:
Kuranosuke Ôishi
2013
A nice exploration of the samurai-ninja aspect of the story, including its roots in the actual Marvel comic books. There are the requisite interviews ... view
Character:
Self
2013
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story. ... view
Character:
Nagase
2013
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan. ... view
Character:
Shingen Harada / Lord Shingen
Sep 2011 (first aired)
When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her fami ... view
Character:
Satoshi Takeda (4 ep.)
2009
28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get throu ... view
Character:
Pete
2008
Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the poli ... view
Character:
Mr. Musha
2008
The first half shows the cast being interviewed in character and provides movie plot back story. The second half shows behind-the-scenes filming, incl ... view
Character:
Mr. Musha
2007
After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous ... view
Character:
Kenji
2007
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but ... view
Character:
Kaneda
Original title: 无极
2005
An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man, sh ... view
Character:
General Guangming
2005
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American ... view
Character:
Matsuda
Original title: 亡国のイージス
2005
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No soone ... view
Character:
Hisashi Sengoku
Sep 2004 (first aired)
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets. ... view
Character:
Dogen (5 ep.)
2003
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and th ... view
Character:
Ujio
Original title: たそがれ清兵衛
2002
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles ... view
Character:
Seibei Iguchi
Original title: 助太刀屋助六
2002
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Suker ... view
Character:
Sukeroku Sukedachiya
Original title: 陰陽師
2001
During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on the onmyōji to keep the supernatural forces in l ... view
Character:
Dōson
Jul 2001 (first aired)
Sanada plays a salariman who just lost his job. Yonekura, his wife, is a dancer who gave up her career when they got married. In the middle of family ... view
Character:
Yosuke Matoba (12 ep.)
Original title: みんなのいえ
2001
Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa isn’t licensed to bu ... view
Character:
Bartender
Original title: はつ恋
2000
This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a mal ... view
Character:
Shinichirô Fujiki
Original title: 真夜中まで
1999
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers ... view
Character:
Koji
Original title: 刑事たちの夏
1999
The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corruption case involving the prime minister's office. ... view
Character:
Original title: リング 2
1999
While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako ... view
Character:
Ryuji Takayama
Original title: たどんとちくわ
1998
A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. ... view
Character:
Oct 1998 (first aired)
Tokiwa plays a sharp tongued reporter for a major daily newspaper. She was demoted to a sleazy tabloid as a punishment for breaking the reporter's cod ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (10 ep.)
Original title: D坂の殺人事件
1998
Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks. ... view
Character:
Seiichiro Fukiya
Original title: らせん
1998
A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death ... view
Character:
Ryûji Takayama
Original title: リング
1998
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a ... view
Character:
Ryuji Takayama
Jul 1997 (first aired)
Konna Koi no Hanashi is a Japanese television drama starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Nanako Matsushima. It aired during the Summer of 1997 in Japan and in ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (12 ep.)
Apr 1997 (first aired)
This series is based on the series of 68 novels written by Okamoto Kido in the early 20th century. The hero is Hanshichi, a young but highly skilled E ... view
Character:
Hanshichi (18 ep.)
Jan 1996 (first aired)
A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. Wi ... view
Character:
Ishida Mitsunari (49 ep.)
Original title: 阿部一族
1995
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of ... view
Character:
Emoto Matashichiro
Original title: 緊急呼出し エマージェンシー・コール
1995
The North General Hospital in the Tondo district of Manila was as busy as a battlefield. Hideyuki Harada, an intern on duty at the Department of Obste ... view
Character:
Hideyuki Harada
1995
A disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy official are about to land in San Francisco when a ... view
Character:
Kamijo Kenkichi
Original title: 写楽
1995
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtur ... view
Character:
Tonbo
1994
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... unt ... view
Character:
Original title: 忠臣蔵外伝 四谷怪談
1994
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beauti ... view
Character:
Takuminokami Asano
Oct 1994 (first aired)
Kunihiko Yamanobe, played by Hiroyuki Sanada, owes money to Yuki Tachibana, played by Kyoko Koizumi, because of his wife's credit card bankruptcy. Thi ... view
Character:
Kunihiko Yamanobe (11 ep.)
Original title: ヒーローインタビュー
1994
Kasumi Sawaki (Honami Suzuki) works for a top-ranked newspaper publishing company as a capable economic reporter. Speaking six languages fluently, she ... view
Character:
Jinta Todoroki
Character:
Apr 1994 (first aired)
Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in 2006. It was writte ... view
Character:
由良一夫 (1 ep.)
Original title: 眠らない街 新宿鮫
1993
A lone-wolf detective known as "The Shark" must navigate hostile territory within both the criminal underworld and his own corrupt department to hunt ... view
Character:
Takashi Samejima
Original title: 僕らはみんな生きている
1993
Businessmen competing for international building contracts in this globe-trotting comedy-adventure. ... view
Character:
Jan 1993 (first aired)
Hamura entered a high school as a biology teacher. Unexpectedly, one of his students, Mayu, fell in love with him. The forbidden love between the teac ... view
Character:
Hamura Takao (11 ep.)
Character:
Original title: 継承盃
1992
A bumbling stockbroker-turned-yakuza is tasked with ensuring that an alcoholic boss is up to the task of arbitrating his syndicate's succession ceremo ... view
Character:
Masakazu Yoshinari
Original title: 織田信長
1992
Among the great ‘Warlords’ in Japanese history, Oda Nobunaga holds a unique place. In effect, his military success led to the ultimate unification ... view
Character:
Jan 1991 (first aired)
The drama centers on Ashikaga Takauji's rise to power, overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate and eventually establishing the Ashikaga shogunate. ... view
Character:
Takauji Ashikaga (49 ep.)
Original title: つぐみ
1990
Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a f ... view
Character:
Kyoichi Takahashi
Original title: 病院へ行こう
1990
When a hard-driving copywriter (Hiroyuki Sanada) discovers his comely wife (Keiko Saito) is involved in a scintillating game of strip rock-paper-sciss ... view
Character:
Kohei Shintani
Original title: リメインズ 美しき勇者たち
1990
Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi tells the story of a group of bear hunters that are ... view
Character:
Eiji
Original title: 新吾十番勝負
1990
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his fa ... view
Character:
Aoi Shingo
Original title: 坂本龍馬
1989
After more than 200 years of Isolation, Japan is ready for a modern samurai who isn't afraid to use guns and embrace the outside world. ... view
Character:
Ryoma Sakamoto
Original title: どっちにするの
1989
A computer error puts entry level workers Nobuko (Miho Nakayama) and Junko (Chieri Ito) in charge of a toy company. It's now up to them to save the co ... view
Character:
Jun Yamamoto
Original title: あなたが大好き
1988
The Sagami family has been running an Edo-style woodworking shop in downtown Tokyo for generations. The head of the family, Bunzo (Kunie Tanaka), has ... view
Character:
Original title: 快盗ルビイ
1988
Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman named Rumi moves in in the apartment upstairs. Rumi is ... view
Character:
Toru Hayashi
Original title: Tokugawa Ieyasu
1988
From his early days as Matsudaira Motoyasu through his rise to the most powerful man in Japan as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns, t ... view
Character:
Original title: 必殺4 恨みはらします
1987
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in t ... view
Character:
Ukyo
Jan 1987 (first aired)
Broadcast TV drama NHK broadcast on January 4 to December 13, 1987 (Showa 62). In the questionnaire survey conducted by NHK, it is shining in the most ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (50 ep.)
Original title: 皇家戰士
1986
When a tough policewoman learns about a group of violent terrorists, she, along with her partner and a Japanese detective, does everything it takes to ... view
Character:
Peter Yamamoto
Original title: キャバレー
1986
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist start ... view
Character:
Tanokura
Original title: 犬死にせしもの
1986
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home. ... view
Character:
Original title: 火宅の人
1986
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work ... view
Character:
Chuya Nakahara
Original title: カムイの剣
1985
A young boy named Jiro finds his mother and sister murdered in his home. Falsely accused of the crime, he flees from his village and meets a priest na ... view
Character:
Jirô
Original title: 麻雀放浪記
1984
A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match. ... view
Character:
Bouya Tetsu
Original title: コータローまかりとおる!
1984
Lewd, long-haired karate kid Kotaro Shindo spends his days causing amok at the prestigious Tsurugamine Academy, until the Disciplinary Committee decid ... view
Character:
Date Yoshioka
Original title: 彩り河
1984
A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death. ... view
Character:
Joji Tanaka
Original title: 素晴らしきサーカス野郎
1984
Daigaku, member of the circus, is involved in a certain case and is suspected by Detective Hattori and others that he's the culprit. In order to unrav ... view
Character:
Satomi Go
Feb 1984 (first aired)
Five descendants of the people showered with Bio Particles by Bio Robots five centuries in the past have become Biomen. They transform with the Bio Br ... view
Character:
Ken Hayase (1 ep.)
Original title: 里見八犬伝
1983
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Sh ... view
Character:
Inue Shinbei Masashi
Original title: 伊賀野カバ丸
1983
Kabamaru is a young boy raised and trained by his grandfather as a ninja. After the sudden death of his grandfather, he starts living with Mai, his gr ... view
Character:
Shizune Mejiro
Original title: 伊賀忍法帖
1982
A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with th ... view
Character:
Jotaro Fuefuki
Oct 1982 (first aired)
The sequel to The Yagyu Conspiracy picks up when Yagyu Jubei (Sonny Chiba) has a falling out with the Shogun, and sets out on his own as a wanted man. ... view
Character:
Matahira (26 ep.)
Original title: 蒲田行進曲
1982
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a ... view
Character:
Actor
Original title: 龍之忍者
1982
A Japanese master of ninjutsu and a Chinese expert in kung fu, put their differences aside after their master is killed by a mortal enemy. ... view
Character:
Genbu
Original title: 道頓堀川
1982
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year ... view
Character:
Kunihiko Yasuoka
Original title: 燃える勇者
1981
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living throughout ... view
Character:
Joe
Original title: 冒険者カミカゼ
1981
An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as “sp ... view
Character:
Akira Hoshino
Original title: 吼えろ鉄拳
1981
On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash. Short ... view
Character:
Joji
Original title: 魔界転生
1981
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Sata ... view
Character:
Kirimaru Iga
1981
Sci-fi meets martial arts in this lively chronicle of a warrior pilot who returns to his native planet to find it controlled by a wicked tyrant Captai ... view
Character:
Hayato
Original title: 忍者武芸帖 百地三太夫
1980
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the ... view
Character:
Momochi Takamaru
Original title: 柳生あばれ旅
1980
The story of the Yagyu clan and their journeys across the country in their quest to fight injustice and corruption... and there are many surprises alo ... view
Character:
Oct 1980 (first aired)
Yagyu Abaretabi is the tale of members of the Yagyu Clan and their travels all around the nation seeking to fight injustice and corruption... and ther ... view
Character:
Matabei (26 ep.)
Original title: 翔んだカップル
1980
Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrolls in a prestigious high school ... view
Character:
Isozaki
Apr 1980 (first aired)
Shadow Warriors is a Japanese television jidaigeki show featuring Sonny Chiba that ran for four seasons in the early 1980s.
Chiba played different ni ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (27 ep.)
Original title: 戦国自衛隊
1979
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai ... view
Character:
Takeda Katsuyori
Original title: 真田幸村の謀略
1979
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu. ... view
Character:
Monk Miyoshi Isa
Original title: 宇宙からのメッセージ 銀河大戦
1978
The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire. ... view
Character:
Gen Hayato / Maboroshi
Jul 1978 (first aired)
The 15th solar system is invaded by the Stressos. Two men, Ryû and Ayato, and a man-ape, Baru, organize the resistance. They are helped by Eolia, a m ... view
Character:
Hayato (27 ep.)
Original title: 宇宙からのメッセージ
1978
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaib ... view
Character:
Shiro Hongo
Original title: 柳生一族の陰謀
1978
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the sho ... view
Character:
Hayate
Apr 1977 (first aired)
Cyborg warriors were created by the Special Science Investigation Squad to bear nuclear, gravitational, magnetic, and electrical forces. They fight th ... view
Character:
Katsuya Nakayama (1 ep.)
Original title: 直撃! 地獄拳
1974
Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuichi Koga, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura wor ... view
Character:
Ryuichi Koga (child)
Original title: 新網走番外地 さいはての流れ者
1969
Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend. ... view
Character:
Original title: 出世子守唄
1967
Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped the clan's vengeance by staying on the road with his ... view
Character:
Original title: 続浪曲子守唄
1967
Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leav ... view
Character:
Original title: 浪曲子守唄
1966
Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, driftin ... view
Character:
Kenichi Endo
Jan 1949 (first aired)
An annual awards ceremony honoring the best in U.S. prime time television programming as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. ... view
Character:
Self - Winner (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
Jan 1944 (first aired)
An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Associatio ... view
Character:
Self - Nominee (1 ep.)