Taylor Takahashi (born September 7, 1992) is an American actor, chef, former basketball player, and personal assistant to

Eddie Huang Edwyn Charles Huang (born March 1, 1982) is an American author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and former attorney. He was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village, Manhattan, East Village of Lower Manha ...

. He made his acting debut in Huang's first directorial effort, ''

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''.

Early life and career

Taylor Takahashi is a yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese-American). He was born and raised in

Alameda, California Alameda ( ; ; Spanish for "Avenue (landscape), tree-lined path") is a city in Alameda County, California, United States, located in the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), East Bay region of the Bay Area. The city is built on an informal archipe ...

and relocated to Orange County as an adult. In

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, he played basketball before becoming a personal trainer. He returned to his roots and joined a recreation league where he discovered that

was one of his teammates. They quickly bonded as Takahashi was a fan of his work and became employed as his personal assistant and worked as a chef in his restaurant, "I learned so much by being able to observe... he never treated me like, 'I'm your boss and you work for me.' It was always very open... 'If you want to explore relationships with them, my world is your world. And I want you to try to take advantage as much as you can.'" Huang showed Takahashi the script for a movie he was hoping to direct, ''

,'' and continued to assist him on the project by training the actor chosen for the lead role. "I show up to the office about three and a half weeks into pre-production, and Eddie's standing at the front door... And he's like, 'What’s up? How you doing today? Give me your phone and give me your laptop. No distractions today.' And I was like, 'Am I fired? What happened?'" Takahashi was soon informed by Huang that the actor chosen was unable to take the role and had decided to cast him instead. Following the release of ''Boogie'', Takahashi stated that he plans to continue acting and has started auditioning and taking acting classes to improve his craft.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Takahashi, Taylor Living people 21st-century American male actors American male film actors American male actors of Japanese descent American chefs Male actors from California People from Alameda, California 1992 births