He is honestly one of the nicest human beings I have ever met and could kick my ass and rip my throat out in seventeen different ways. They circulated the story that my father claimed that he taught Bruce everything he knew, in the hope that both men would lose their tempers and put each other out of business. Spirit means everything and it’s so similar to dancing and cooking. Thanks Raj… Surely, they need one like you.. We offer information about job opportunities, casting calls, and more. Dacascos is married to actress Julie Condra, who starred with him in Crying Freeman. In 1986, Mark was set to play the Red Ranger in the television Super Sentai series, Bio-Man, which was to be produced by Haim Saban, but the show never resulted in a series. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. He also competed in the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars. Mark attended Los Angeles Valley College and was on the 1983-1984 Gymnastics Team coached by Gary Honjio. Casts Mark Dacascos In Recurring Role", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Dacascos&oldid=984244694, Participants in American reality television series, BLP articles lacking sources from February 2013, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Actor, martial artist, television personality, Episode: "The Grass Ain't Always Greener", This page was last edited on 19 October 2020, at 01:35. Hired by Asia Kate Dillon’s Adjudicator, Zero has the task of destroying not only a fellow assassin but one which he has a tremendous amount of respect for. Name: Mark Alan Dacascos I love learning different martial arts and I’d never studied Muay Thai before so it gave me a great professional reason to learn as much as I could before shooting started.”, With controversy surrounding the fictional encounter between Mike Moh’s Bruce Lee and Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino’s latest offering Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood, had it not been for mutual respect, Mark’s father Al Dacascos and Bruce Lee could have fought each other in real life over 40 years ago. He plays the role of the Chairman of Iron Chef America and Iron Chef Australia. Mark has been featured in many action films including Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), Crying Freeman (1995) and Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), where he squared off against Jet Li. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, my Father, my Mother – those were my martial arts heroes when I was growing up. I did an episode of Martial Law, I play the bad guy. One Night In Bangkok is now available on DVD and Digital from Lionsgate Home Entertainment! He also attended Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. As Mark explains in an electronic press kit interview from Lionsgate, “Zero, at least in his mind, though he loves John, he feels like he’s on par with him because he loves everything Mr. Wick is about. Bruce Lee was the first Asian guy that I saw kick butt on the screen and today, he’s still one of my heroes.”, One of my favourite martial arts movies of all time is 1993’s Only the Strong, where Mark’s former Green Beret and capoeira practitioner Louis Stevens returns to his old neighbourhood to find his old high school overrun by gangs and drug dealers. He has won numerous karate and kung fu championships between the ages of 7 and 18. His breakout role was in the 1993 film Only the Strong, in which he played Louis, a capoeira master who takes a high school's potential failures and turns their lives around by teaching them the Brazilian martial art based on the West African martial art brought by slaves. Report by Carl Fox With more than sixty credits to his name (including his big screen lead debut Only the Strong, the live action adaptation of Manga series Crying Freeman, French arthouse hit Brotherhood of the Wolf, Craig Hamann’s critically acclaimed Boogie Boy and his directorial debut Showdown in Manila) and a career spanning nearly thirty years, Mark Dacascos’ name has been synonymous with martial arts movies since the early nineties. Mark Dacascos was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2002 for his role in Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001). Dacascos plays the recurring role of Wo Fat on the CBS series, Hawaii Five-0. [1], Dacascos became an actor after being discovered walking down the street in San Francisco's Chinatown by Chris Lee (at that time, assistant director) and Rexall Chin (hairstylist) for director Wayne Wang. Mark says, “My father teaches Wun Hop Kuen Do, which today would be classed as a mixed martial arts, but as you know in a real fight, everything is a mixed martial art. When I did Only the Strong, I was taking Capoeira, not for the movie, but for myself. I was a foreigner, and although I had a lot of good friends, kung fu and Jackie Chan were a huge influence in my life! His father, Al Dacascos, is from Hawaii and is a martial arts instructor whose parents originated from the Philippines and were of Chinese, Filipino and Spanish ancestry. Dacascos was born February 26, 1964, in Oahu, Hawaii. We would try to avoid the eye  gouges and so forth, but as far as making contact and hitting and with the speed we did as much as we could without hurting each other. Dacascos was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2002 for his role in Brotherhood of the Wolf. Mark attended Los Angeles Valley College and was on the 1983-1984 Gymnastics Team coached by Gary Honjio. He lived in Taiwan for 6 months, training in the Black-Tiger Northern Shaolin style. He also appears in the children’s television show, Masked Rider: Dragon Knight (2009) with Matt Mullins, where he portrays Eubulon, also known as the Advent Master, mentor of the Kamen Riders and creator of the Advent Decks. Dacascos starred as Zero, the formidable warrior who took on Wick in the climatic fight at the end and the sequence was ripe with dazzling choreography and brutal flair. Influenced by the great martial artists of his generation, and more than capable of holding the screen with his good looks and physical prowess, Mark is a dedicated martial artist whose humbleness belies his ability to inflict damage if called for. He continues his acting studies with Voice and Shakespeare teacher Patsy Rodenburg with Larry Moss, and Gary Austin. He is best known for his roles as Mani in Brotherhood of the Wolf, Toby Wong in Drive, Ling in Cradle 2 the Grave, the titular role in Crying Freeman and Zero in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. Mark Dacascos was born on February 26, 1964 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA as Mark Alan Dacascos. Even now when I’m on my tread mill over there trying to keep my cardio up I pop on a Jackie Chan film or a Bruce Lee film and those guys keep me motivated. [8] Recently, he starred in a recurring role on the Netflix series, Wu Assassins.[9]. His other roles include Wo Fat on the CBS series Hawaii Five-0, Kung Lao in the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy, Eric Draven in The Crow: Stairway to Heaven and Eubulon in Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight. In the following year, Dacascos co-starred with Party of Five's Scott Wolf as Jimmy and Billy Lee, respectively, in the movie, based on the video game, Double Dragon. Mark Alan Dacascos was born on February 26, 1964 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mark says, “After Bruce Lee passed away, Linda, knowing that Bruce respected my father’s art and skill, championed my father for the role of Bruce Lee in a biographical movie back in the 70’s, but the movie never got made but my father was Linda’s first choice. One for continual personal development, Mark’s martial arts foundations are rooted in his father’s own style of Wun Hop Kuen Do. So if you want to be able to kick high or do a sweep or punch you have to be able to do that when you’re cold. His father, Al Dacascos, is from Hawaii and is a martial arts instructor whose parents originated from the Philippines and were of Chinese, Filipino and Spanish ancestry. He played Ex-Special Forces soldier, Louis Stevens, who returns to Miami to find his former high school overrun by drugs and violence. Find out who's who, read news, articles and reviews, watch trailers, get career advice and so much more. I like Snake in The Eagle’s Shadow. He has studied Muay Thai, capoeira with Amen Santo, and Wushu. In the series' backstory he is the nephew of the original Iron Chef Chairman, Takeshi Kaga; the actors have no relation in real life. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. All rights reserved. He has a lot more depth in him and I think that he has been slightly misused over time. Mark can perform all his stunts himself. What I would like to show is the Capoeiraistas who have been doing it for decades. Amen Santo, my wife and I are working on a script and we want to shoot everything, apart from a few scenes, in Brazil. We don’t want it to be a sequel, but the people who saw Only the Strong the first time around, we want to do something that would have grown up with them. as Mr. Giyera, an Inhuman servant of Hydra who can manipulate inanimate objects. I would be thinking, “wait a minute, my body is like cold, I might tear something or whatever!”. Linda wrote a book called ‘Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew.’ At the beginning, in the acknowledgements, she thanks two martial artists; Jhoon Rhee and Al Dacascos – Bruce’s ‘fellow martial artists.’ That made me so excited and so happy. He also trained for 2 months in capoeira under Mestre Amen Santo before auditioning for the role of Louis Stevens, in Only The Strong. He is best known for his roles as Mani in Brotherhood of the Wolf, Toby Wong in Drive, Ling in Cradle 2 the Grave, the titular role in Crying Freeman and Zero in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. In the series' backstory he is the nephew of the original Iron Chef Chairman, Takeshi Kaga; the actors have no relation in real life. Martial Arts Icon Mark Dacascos Talks ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK on The Action Fix Podcast! Mark Dacasos was born to Wun Hop Kuen Do founder Al Dacascos and Moriko McVey-Murray, but he was raised by His stepmother, award winning martial artist, Malia Bernal. His father, Al Dacascos, is from Hawaii and is a martial arts instructor whose parents originated from the Philippines and were of Chinese, Filipino and Spanish ancestry. He also performed in three video games: voice acting in Stranglehold, live acting in Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom and digitally recreating The Chairman in the Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine video game for Wii. Physically he’s a very talented person, not just in martial arts but also gymnastics, acrobatics, acting between the fights, everything. ), Universal Confirms F10 & F11 will Wrap Up the Blockbuster Franchise. Just to know, to come as close to reality as possible. John McClain is Back…in a Car Battery Comercial? Weight:  153lbs (69kg) We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Mark Dacascos’ Martial Arts Ability The excitement and physical ability of Mark Dacascos absolutely makes this movie. I was a Hawaiian boy spending most of my teen years in Hamburg Germany, and my sanctuary was in the kung-fu school! He plays the role of the Chairman of Iron Chef America and Iron Chef Australia. Mark trained since he was 4 years old under his father (Al Dacascos) in Wun Hop Kuen Do, which means: “Way of the Combined Fist” or “Combined Fist Style”, in which he has a 8th degree black belt. The film has given Dacascos a resurgence as of late and now he has reunited with The Driver Director Wych Kaosonayada for a new hard hitting and stylish thriller called One Night In Bangkok where he plays an aging assassin who has one night to execute five hits in six hours and he’s got a formidable opponent on his trail played by Kane Kosugi. Raj, a wing chun student, enjoys spending time studying various aspects of the martial arts, from theory to practically applied skills. DAY SHIFT: Jamie Foxx Set to Headline the Netflix Vampire Hunter Film from JJ Perry! RAGING FIRE: Donnie Yen & Nicholas Tse are Ready for War on the New Poster for the Upcoming Cop Thriller from Benny Chan! “, With Mark’s father Al forming a friendship with Bruce Lee, Mark’s mother Malia Bernal and Linda Lee became friends, just after Bruce passed away, when Linda went on a world tour in memory of her late husband.