1. Nobu McCarthy received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in the film The Wash.
15 Facts About Nobu McCarthy
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Nobu McCarthy's father was a Japanese fashion designer and diplomatic attache stationed in Canada at the time.
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Nobu McCarthy was raised in Japan, where she studied ballet.
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Nobu McCarthy had some minor roles in a handful of movies including The Karate Kid Part II.
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Nobu McCarthy starred with Lloyd Bridges in a 1959 Sea Hunt television episode as a Hawaiian woman fighting to protect pearl beds from poachers.
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Nobu McCarthy appeared in the 1960 episode "Princess of Crazy Creek" of the syndicated western TV series Pony Express, starring Grant Sullivan.
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Nobu McCarthy appeared in the ABC adventure dramas Adventures in Paradise and The Islanders.
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Nobu McCarthy made two guest appearances on Perry Mason: in 1959 she played defendant Mitsou Kamuri in "The Case of the Blushing Pearls," and in 1965 she played Sally Choshi in "The Case of the Wrongful Writ".
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Nobu McCarthy starred with Robert Conrad in the final episode of the first season of The Wild Wild West, dated April 22,1966 "The Night of the Sudden Plague" as a Chinese woman "Anna Kirby", who is the daughter of a mad professor breeding bacteria for a serum that causes temporary paralysis.
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Nobu McCarthy then starred in the television movie Farewell to Manzanar, based on the novel of the same title.
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Nobu McCarthy made an appearance in an episode of the television sitcoms Happy Days and Diff'rent Strokes.
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Nobu McCarthy appeared in three episodes of The Love Boat.
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In 1971, Nobu McCarthy joined East West Players, an Asian American theatre group in Los Angeles.
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Nobu McCarthy's starring role in the indie feature The Wash, opposite Mako, earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination in 1989.
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Nobu McCarthy did the voice-overs at the beginning and end of Picture Bride.