Karl Yune

Born and raised in Washington DC Karl Yune is an American actor of Asian descent After high school Karl successfully started and sold an internet based consulting business and was accepted to Columbia University as a business major His studying and love of Shakespeare during a literature course influenced him to switch his major to theater at the Universitys School of the Arts While at Columbia Yune won the role of Romeo in an off Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet and was later signed to a talent manager Karl continued to work as a theater actor in New York City and won critical and rave reviews for his performance as Gloucester in a contemporary rendition of Shakespeares Richard the III While casting The Last Samurai director Edward Zwick was impressed with Yunes audition tape and Karl went to Los Angeles for the first time to meet with the famed director Zwick later informed Karl that the studio was to cast the film out of Japan but encouraged Karl to move to Los Angeles as he saw promise in the young actors talent Inspired Karl moved to Los Angeles only to learn that he was offered a five year contract back in New York on the popular daytime TV drama All My Children Yune passed on the offer and soon booked his first lead role in the cult film Anacondas The Hunt for the Blood Orchid The following year Karl was picked by producer Steven Spielberg to play the memorable role of Koichi the secret lover to Li Gongs Geisha Hatsumomo in Memoirs of a Geisha based on the international best selling novel Karl continued to work in lead and supporting roles in award winning independent foreign and Hollywood films In 2010 Karl was again chosen by producer Steven Spielberg and director Shawn Levy to star as Tak Mashido the reclusive legend of the robot fighting world in the scifi drama Real Steel Karl now resides in Los Angeles California His brother Rick is also a successful actor in Hollywood