Hiro Kanagawa

Acting

Born October 13, 1963, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Hironobu Kanagawa (金川 弘敦, Kanagawa Hironobu, October 13, 1963) is a Japanese-Canadian actor and playwright based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has appeared in numerous high-profile films and television series shot in the Vancouver area, including Smallville, Caprica, Godzilla, The Man in the High Castle, Altered Carbon, iZombie, Legends of Tomorrow, Heroes Reborn and Kim's Convenience and was a writer on Da Vinci's City Hall. As a voice-over artist, he was the original English-language voice of Gihren Zabi in the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise and played Reed Richards in Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes.

Filmography

• 2025Akashi — Cab Driver
• 2025Playdate — Colonel Kurtz
• Avatar: The Last Airbender — Fire Lord Sozin
• 2024Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama — Tamio Wakayama / Narrator (voice)
• Shōgun — Igarashi Yoshimoto
• Sight Unseen — Roman Hayashi
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians — Headmaster
• The Last of Us — Carlisle
• The Night Agent — FBI Director Willett
• 2022Orphan: First Kill — Detective Donnan
• Pachinko — Goto
• So Help Me Todd — Alistair Song
• The Recruit — Kenta Nakano
• Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan — Narrator
• 2021Crisis — Dr. Ishiyama
• 2021Every Breath You Take — Dr. Toth
• 2021Needle in a Timestack — Tattersall
• 2020Deeper I Go
• Helstrom — Father Sean Okamoto
• 2020The Tailor — Tailor
• Upload — Det. Sato
• Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist — Dr. Hamara
• 2019Alive — Dr. Nakamura
• 2019Midway — Makigumo Captain
• See — Lord Unoa
• The Order — Detective Hayashi
• 2018A Twist of Christmas — Chester
• 2018Akashi
• Altered Carbon — Captain Tanaka
• 2018Fifty Shades Freed — Detective Clark
• Impulse — Man Thrown Off Roof
• 2018Love, Once and Always — Niven
• Star Trek: Discovery — Dr. Hirai
• The Good Doctor — Paul Nakano
• Colony — Man in Diner
• DC's Legends of Tomorrow — Director Wilbur Burnett
• Designated Survivor — Richard Kim
• 2016Hailey Dean Mysteries: Murder, With Love — Al Sandburg
• Kim's Convenience — Pastor Choi
• Timeless — Agent Kondo
• Dark Matter — Emperor Ishida Tetsuda
• Heroes Reborn — Hachiro Otomo
• 2015The Age of Adaline — Kenneth
• The Magicians — Professor March
• The Man in the High Castle — Taishi Okamura
• The Returned — Doctor Hiromoto
• The Whispers — team member 1 (Brent)
• Zoo — Curtis
• iZombie — Lieutenant Suzuki
• 2014Godzilla — Hayato
• The 100 — Council Member #3
• Almost Human — Recollectionist
• 2013Assault on Wall Street — TV Host
• Bates Motel — Fumhiro Kurata
• Delete — Black Ops #3
• 2013Down River — Aki's Father
• 2013Grave Halloween — Jin
• Spooksville — Mr. Moonbeam
• The Tomorrow People — Corbin
• Arrow — Neil Lamb
• Continuum — Dr. Ted Gibson
• Emily Owens, M.D. — Nobu Chiba
• 2012The Company You Keep — FBI Agent Kanagawa
• 2011Deck the Halls — Harry Saito
• 2011Doomsday Prophecy — Dr. Yates
• 2011Earth's Final Hours — Tech
• Fairly Legal — Dale Rence
• The Secret Circle — Calvin Wilson
• Caprica — Cyrus Xander
• Human Target — Lt. Peale
• Tower Prep — Mr. Sato
• 2009Hardwired — Dr. Steckler
• 2009Playing for Keeps — Henry Wong
• 2009The King of Fighters — Saisyu Kusanagi
• The Listener — Supervisor
• Fringe — Executor
• Sanctuary — Ark-Fong Li
• 2008The Day the Earth Stood Still — Dr. Ikegawa
• Masters of Science Fiction
• Reaper — Morris
• 2007The Last Mimzy — Scientist
• 2007War — Yoshido
• Blade: The Series
• Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes — Mr. Fantastic (voice)
• 2006Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes: Vol. 1 — Mr. Fantastic
• Intelligence
• 2006Spymate — Japanese Chairman
• 2006The Entrance — Detective Nolan
• 2005Best Friends — Detective Myashiro
• 2005Bob the Butler — Japanese Plumber
• Criminal Minds — Seattle ASAC
• Da Vinci's City Hall — Writer
• 2005Elektra — Meizumi
• 2005Hiro — Hiro
• 2005Hush — Dr. Berke
• 2005Ladies Night — Mr. Muriyami
• Supernatural — Game Show Host
• The 4400 — Agent Park
• 2003First to Die — Dr. Shimera
• 2003Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat: Cat Tales and Celebrations — Shan-Tai-Yeh the Foolish Magistrate
• 2003Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat: Feline, Friends and Family — Shan-Tai-Yeh the Foolish Magistrate
• 2003Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat: Sagwa's Storybook World — Shan-Tai-Yeh the Foolish Magistrate
• 2002Chaos and Desire — Kiyoshi
• 2002Damaged Care — Dr. Kitano
• 2002Extreme Ops — Mr. Imahara
• 2002Living with the Dead — Frank the Business Consultant
• 2001Class Warfare — Mr. Tanaka
• 2001Josie and the Pussycats — Japanese Delegate
• 2001Replicant — Lab Video Technician #1
• Sagwa The Chinese Siamese Cat
• Smallville — Principal Kwan
• Special Unit 2 — Madison
• The Lone Gunmen
• 2001Touched by a Killer — Steve Tunaki
• Andromeda — General Burma
• 2000Best in Show — Pet Shop Owner
• Dark Angel — Theo
• 2000Epicenter — Agent Ted
• 2000Protection — Don
• Secret Agent Man — Tokyo Chief
• 2000The 6th Day — Team Doctor
• 2000The Guilty — Police Detective
• 1999Futuresport — Otomo Akira
• 1999Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying — Controller
• 1998American Dragons — Nakai
• Cold Squad — Det. James Kai
• Da Vinci's Inquest
• First Wave — John Tran
• Seven Days
• 1997Bliss — Doctor
• 1997Excess Baggage — Jon
• Stargate SG-1 — M. Wayne
• 1997Tricks — Matsuba
• 1996Bloodhounds II — Detective
• 1996For Hope — Dr. Black
• Millennium — Agent Takahashi, Detective Rondell, Shopkeeper
• The Sentinel — Furukawa
• 1995A Child Is Missing — Agent Kurosaka
• 1995Crying Freeman — Temple Yakuza
• 1995Hideaway — Nurse Nakamura
• Sliders — Henry
• 1995The Hunted — Lieutenant
• The Outer Limits — Tali, Ron Hikida
• 1994My Name Is Kate — Doctor
• Viper — Otomo, Tashogi
• 1993Born Too Soon — Resident
• The X-Files — Peter Tanaka, Dr. Yonechi, Garner
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures — Elvis #2
• Highlander: The Series — Akira Yoshida