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All About Lyrica Okano, the Girl-Crush Queen of Marvel’s ‘Runaways’. Lyrica Okano plays bisexual teen superhero Nico Minoru on Hulu's Marvel series "Runaways." (Nolwen Cifuentes/KORE) Every morning, Lyrica Okano wakes up at 7 a.m. She cleans, cooks a meal and gives a pep talk to her reflection in the mirror. “You can do this,” she ...
Photo Source: Caitlin Watkins. With her starring role as Nico Minoru on “Marvel’s Runaways,” Lyrica Okano knows she has something special on her hands. Now two seasons in and streaming ...
Biography Lyrica Okano was born to parents who emigrated from Tokyo, Japan. They came to the United States in the early 1990s to join the punk rock scene. Her mother ended up becoming an IT tech and her father became a teacher who taught Japanese. At the age of four, she began taking Olympic gymnastics and nearly competed professionally. She stopped taking gymnastics when she was 14 when "[she ...
Lyrica Okano was born November 9, 1994, and she is best known for her starring role as Nico Minoru in the Hulu series Marvel's Runaways. From teen drama icons Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (The O.C. / Gossip Girl), Marvel's Runaways followed a group of diverse teenagers who discovered their parents were all part of a supervillain group called the Pride.
Lyrica Okano—who plays Nico—and I were bugging [co-creators] Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage all season going, "Are we going to get to kiss? The fans are going to love it! Let us do it!"
The show is packed with new talent, but actress Lyrica Okano—who plays Nico— had perhaps the most interesting storyline of the season: The death of Nico's sister is the catalyst for the events ...
During a small roundtable interview, co-stars Virginia Gardner and Lyrica Okano talked about their reaction to signing on for a Marvel TV series, what they were most interested about with these ...
