# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gedde-watanabe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:28:20.223Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gedde-watanabe"
name: "Gedde Watanabe"
slug: "gedde-watanabe"
description: "Gary \"Gedde\" Watanabe is an American actor. He is known for voicing the character of Ling in the animated film Mulan (1998) and its sequel Mulan II (2004), as well as playing Long Duk Dong in the film Sixteen Candles (1984), Takahara \"Kaz\" Kazihiro in Gung Ho (1986), and Nurse Yosh Takata in the NBC medical drama ER from 1997 to 2003. He was also an original cast member of the Stephen Sondheim musical Pacific Overtures."
tagline: "American actor and comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gedde_Watanabe_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-06-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.33
  momentum:             4.816311535635561
  historical:           16.631784
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913797/"
    handle:    "nm0913797"
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    title: "Gedde Watanabe"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump