Cast: Masi Oka (as Hiro Nakamura)
More on Season 3 Villain Daphne aka Joy aka Hiro’s Joker
It looks like Tim Kring and company have pulled a fast one — they’ve changed the name of the Season 3’s new speedster villain from Joy to Daphne, or at least according to a recent article on actress Brea Grant. The article also has Grant mentioning that she will be a true villain in the [...]
May 9th, 2008 | Sam | 0 comments | Read MoreMasi Oka’s Get Smart Spin-Off DVD Release Date
Like Ali Larter, Hayden Panettiere, and Milo Ventimiglia, Masi Oka is developing a flourishing movie career beyond the world of Heroes, and his most prominent role to date is co-starring alongside Nate Torrance in the “Get Smart” movie spin-off, “Get Smart’s Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control”. Masi will be playing Bruce, while Torrance will [...]
April 25th, 2008 | Sam | 0 comments | Read MoreHeroes Nominated for 2008 Saturn Awards
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films (aka the Saturns) has announced the nominations for the 34th Annual Saturn Awards, and Heroes landed five nominations, though it was beaten out by Lost with seven nominations, and tied with Showtime’s grisly Dexter with five. Among its five nominations, Heroes scored one for Best Network [...]
February 22nd, 2008 | Sam | 8 comments | Read MoreHeroes News Roundup for January 15, 2008
Not a whole lot of Heroes news around the net the last few weeks, thanks in no small part to the ongoing writer’s strike, but here are just a few that surfaced. There is an interview with Zachary Quinto about his Trek 11 and Heroes schedule, Hayden is on the cover of the magazine Lucky [...]
January 15th, 2008 | Sam | 8 comments | Read MoreMasi, Ali, and Adrian Holiday Memories
It’s Monday, which usually means I’m giving you the rundown for new episodes of Heroes that’s about to air, but since that won’t be happening for a while (or a LONG while, if this strike continues), let’s instead catch up with some of the Heroes cast — Ali Larter, Masi Oka, and Adrian Pasdar — [...]
December 11th, 2007 | Sam | 2 comments | Read MoreHayden is Wanted, Masi is Sexy, Get Tim Sale’s Paintings, Quinto as Spock
Now who would want to throw our little Hayden Panettiere in the pokey? Well apparently the Japanese Government, for one, who according to Hayden herself, has issued an arrest warrant for her via her Save the Dolphins activities in that country a little while back. Says Hayden about the incident: “I learned today that I [...]
November 17th, 2007 | Sam | 13 comments | Read MoreMasi Oka to Serve as One Laptop per Child Ambassador
Masi Oka isn’t letting fame go to his head, but he is using his newfound fame to do some good things for his fellow man. Oka has just been named global ambassador for One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization launched in 2005 with a mission of providing a means for learning, self-expression and [...]
November 1st, 2007 | Sam | 1 comment | Read MoreMasi Oka Interview with Geek Monthly
I just ran across this two-part interview with Heroes’ Masi Oka over at GeekMonthly.com that features some pretty groovy pictures of Masi in different characters other than Hiro Nakamura. My favorite has to be Masi as Tony Montana from Scarface, although the Masi as The Fonz comes pretty close. Check them out for yourself below.
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Quick Heroes News (Sept 25, 2007)
So how did the Season 2 premiere of Heroes do in the area that really counts — the ratings? Not bad at all. Variety reports that Heroes averaged a 6.5 share of all viewers in the important 18-49 demographics and 14.1 million viewers overall, up from last year’s premiere of 5.9 in the 18-49 group. [...]
September 25th, 2007 | Sam | 2 comments | Read MoreLIVE EMMY UPDATE: Masi Oka Loses to Terry O’Quinn for Best Supporting Actor
Bad news, guys.
Masi Oka has lost the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series to Terry O’Quinn from Lost.
The biggest category for Heroes is Best Drama, which will usually be awarded at the end of the broadcast. So there’s a long wait to go…
Heroes at the Emmy Awards Watch
Will Masi Oka and the cast of Heroes get a chance to go on stage and scream, “YATTA!!!” tonight at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards? (For those who don’t know, the Emmys will run LIVE on FOX at 7:00 p.m. You can go there now to catch the pre-show, well, show.) We’ll have to wait [...]
September 16th, 2007 | Sam | 0 comments | Read MoreHeroes World Tour Asia Lands in Singapore
The Asian leg of the Heroes World Tour, otherwise known as Masi Oka, Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter, and Sendhil Ramamurthy, landed in Singapore on Thursday. Davin Arul of the The Star Online pointed us to the page that chronicles the Heroes’ heroic arrival in Singapore. The site also includes some excellent pictures of the cast [...]
September 2nd, 2007 | Sam | 2 comments | Read MoreNew Image: Hiro and Kensei in Feudal Japan
USA Today has an article on Heroes where they give a pretty thorough rundown of what to expect in the upcoming Season 2. It’s nothing you haven’t already read here multiple times, alas, but the article does come with a nice picture of Hiro (Masi Oka) and an unmasked Kensei (David Anders) in Feudal Japan. [...]
August 31st, 2007 | Sam | 4 comments | Read MoreMore from Masi, Ali, Sendhill, and Greg in Hong Kong
If you’ve been reading this site, you know that one-thirds of the Heroes cast are currently in Asia swinging around different countries to promote Heroes as part of the Heroes World Tour. Ali Larter, Masi Oka, Greg Grunberg, and Sendhill Ramamurthy were most recently in Japan and then Hong Kong, and that’s where these pictures [...]
August 30th, 2007 | Sam | 3 comments | Read MoreHeroes World Tour Asia Continues in Hong Kong
While the quartet of Ventimiglia, Panettiere, Coleman, and Pasdar were busy invading Paris, France, the quartet of Masi Oka, Ali Larter, Greg Grunberg, and Sendhil Ramamurthy landed in Hong Kong, where they greeted fans and talked to the press. Pictures of the gang doing a lot of press work and some sight seeing via the [...]
August 29th, 2007 | Sam | 0 comments | Read MoreVideos of Masi Oka on Japanese TV
To no one’s surprise, Masi Oka was the focus of Japanese TV when the gang showed up in Tokyo earlier this week as part of their Heroes World Tour. Here are a couple of the shows Masi was on. Obviously I don’t speak Japan so I have no idea what any of them are saying [...]
August 29th, 2007 | Sam | 2 comments | Read MoreHeroes Cast in Tokyo for Heroes World Tour
If you happen to live in, or were stopping by Tokyo today, August 27th, then you may have heard that the cast of Heroes (specifically Sendhil Ramamurthy, Ali Larter, Masi Oka and Greg Grunberg) were in your town as part of the globe-hopping Heroes World Tour to promote the show ahead of its second season. [...]
August 27th, 2007 | Sam | 2 comments | Read MoreHayden and Masi’s Comic Book FHM Cover
It looks like Hayden and Masi are quickly becoming everyone’s favorite magazine cover couple. Their latest is one for FHM, a man’s magazine from the UK, where Hayden Panettiere is this month’s cover girl. Obviously I’m not going to post all the pictures in the magazine, as it’s a little inappropriate for our audience, but [...]
August 23rd, 2007 | Sam | 4 comments | Read MoreMasi Oka and Hayden Panettiere Got Milk? Ads
The Got Milk? folks have found their latest two role models for their ad campaign — time traveler Masi Oka and indestructible cheerleader Hayden Panettiere (who just turned 18 a couple of days ago, by the by), are the newest celebrities to be sporting the milk mustache in promotion of milk consumption. What, you don’t [...]
August 23rd, 2007 | Sam | 5 comments | Read MoreMasi Oka Goes Japanese
As far as I know, Heroes hasn’t been shown on Japanese TV yet, but it seems like it’s coming soon. Japanese shows have already begun promoting Heroes, and here’s a Fuji TV’s Mezamashi TV profiling Heroes using Masi Oka’s Hiro character as a focus. I don’t speak Japanese, but JapanProbe was nice enough to transcribe [...]
July 27th, 2007 | Sam | 1 comment | Read More

