Kiralee M. Hayashi is an American stunt woman, actress, and

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

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''.

Background

Hayashi was born and raised in

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...

. She is of

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ese, Portuguese,

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& Irish descent. Her success as a gymnast gained her a full scholarship to

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...

, where she studied

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Academia

While at

she did research in the

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's group at Laboratory of Neuro Image (LONI). She co-authored several papers on neuroscience topics. She has a low

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of just three through the publication ''Brain surface parameterization using

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structure'' which was coauthored by

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. Yau published ''On sampling Markov chains'' together with

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, and Graham authored ''On Sum of Fibonacci Numbers'' together with

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Gymnastics

While at

she was also a notable

. 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 for 1998-99, her senior year. 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

Filmography

Films

Television

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