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  1. Miyoshi Umeki (梅木 美代志, Umeki Miyoshi, or ミヨシ・ウメキ Miyoshi Umeki, May 8, 1929 – August 28, 2007) was a Japanese-American singer and actress. [2] Umeki was nominated for the Tony Award and Golden Globe Award and was the first East Asia-born woman to win an Academy Award for acting.

  2. The youngest of nine children whose father owned a successful iron factory, Umeki was born May 8, 1929, in Otaru on the large Japanese island of Hokkaido. Educated at a finishing school for...

  3. Born on May 8, 1929, in Otaru, Hokkaido, Ms. Umeki began her career as a nightclub singer in Japan, billing herself as Nancy Umeki.

  4. Feb 22, 2018 · In 1958, Miyoshi Umeki won the Academy Award for her supporting role in 'Sayonara.' Sixty years later, she remains the only Asian actress to win an Oscar.

  5. Sep 6, 2007 · Miyoshi Umeki, the Japanese-born singer and actress who became the first Asian performer to win an Academy Award, for her touching role as Red Buttons’ wife in the 1957 movie “Sayonara,” has died....

  6. Miyoshi Umeki, the first East Asian performer to win an Academy Award, died on Aug. 28 in Licking, Missouri. She was 78. Umeki won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her beautifully nuanced performance as an innocent Japanese maiden in love with American serviceman Red Buttons in the 1957 melodrama Sayonara .

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  8. Sep 6, 2007 · The youngest of nine children whose father owned a successful iron factory, Umeki was born May 8, 1929, in Otaru on the large Japanese island of Hokkaido. Educated at a finishing school for...

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