Kiralee Hayashi

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Kiralee Hayashi
Born
Hawaii, U.S.
Occupation
  • Actress
  • stuntwoman
  • gymnast
Years active2007–present
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Kiralee M. Hayashi is an American stunt woman, actress,[1] and gymnast.

She is known for her work on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction, and The Book of Eli.[2]

Background[]

Hayashi was born and raised in Hawaii.[1] She is of Japanese, Portuguese, English & Irish descent.[1] Her success as a gymnast gained her a full scholarship to UCLA,[1] where she studied neuroscience.[3]

Academia[]

While at UCLA she did research in the Paul Thompson's group at Laboratory of Neuro Image (LONI). She co-authored several papers on neuroscience topics.[4]

She has a low Erdős number of just three through the publication Brain surface parameterization using Riemann surface structure which was coauthored by Shing-Tung Yau.[5] Yau published On sampling Markov chains together with Ronald Graham, and Graham authored On Sum of Fibonacci Numbers together with Paul Erdős.[6]

Gymnastics[]

While at UCLA she was also a notable gymnast.[3] One of the most highly recruited freshmen her graduating year. She garnered 9 All-American titles (both first and second team). And was a National Balance Beam champion. She was Pac-10 gymnast of the year in 1999 and Pac-10 Conference Medalist[a] for 1998-99, her senior year.[7][8] And was a two-time Pac-10 All-Academic selection. Hayashi was a finalist for the AAI American Award, given annually to the nation's most outstanding all-around senior gymnast.

Filmography[]

Films[]

Year Title Role Notes
2003 Wasabi Tuna "Sexy Asian Girl #2"[9]
2007 Balls of Fury "Hot Asian Servant Girl"[10] Uncredited
2007 Haunted Forest Satinka[11]
2010 The Book of Eli Stuntwoman
2011 The Green Hornet Stuntwoman[12] Uncredited
2011 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Stuntwoman
2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Stuntwoman
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction
2016 Independence Day: Resurgence Stuntwoman

Television[]

Year Title Role Notes
NCIS
Grey's Anatomy Tracey Mitchell
Supah Ninjas

Notes[]

  1. ^ A Conference Medal is awarded annually to each member institution's outstanding male and female student-athlete based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Kiralee Hayashi - Stunt Double". HawaiiNewsNow.
  2. ^ Kiralee Hayashi at IMDB.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "UCLA Gymnastics Season Wrap-Up". UCLA Athletics. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Kiralee M Hayashi's scientific contributions in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain". ResearchGate. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  5. ^ Yalin Wang, Xianfeng Gu, Kiralee M. Hayashi, Tony F. Chan, Paul M. Thompson, Shing-Tung Yau (2005). "Brain surface parameterization using Riemann surface structure". Medical Image Computing and Computer-assisted Intervention. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 8 (Pt 2): 657–655. doi:10.1007/11566489_81. ISBN 978-3-540-29326-2. PMID 16686016.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Paul Erdős and Ronald Graham (1972). "On Sums of Fibonacci Numbers". Fibonacci Quarterly. 10: 249–254.
  7. ^ "Hayashi Awarded Pac-10 Conference Medal". UCLA Bruins. 1999-06-09. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  8. ^ "Stuart, Hayashi Awarded Pac-10 Conference Medals". UCLA. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  9. ^ "Wasabi Tuna (2003) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.
  10. ^ "Balls of Fury (2007) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.
  11. ^ "Haunted Forest (2007)". IMDb.
  12. ^ "The Green Hornet (2011) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.

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