Yoshua Sudarso (born April 12, 1989) is an Indonesian-born American actor.

Biography

Sudarso was born in

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, Indonesia to Indonesian parents of Chinese descent. His family moved to

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, when he was nine years old. He studied at

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initially pursuing a career in math and accounting before eventually switching to theater. He is famous for playing Koda, the Blue Ranger in ''Power Rangers Dino Charge'' and ''Power Rangers Dino Super Charge''. Sudarso also has one younger brother, Peter Adrian Sudarso, who is also an actor and model. He played a Power Ranger as well, playing as Preston Tien, the Blue Ranger from ''Power Rangers Ninja Steel'' and ''Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel''.He is also a Massive Digimon Fan even getting boxing gear commissioned inspired by the Digimon Zephagamon.

Career

Sudarso began his career working in stunts working on major motion pictures and television shows such as ''The Maze Runner'', ''

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'', '' Alita: Battle Angel'' and more. Sudarso was a suit-actor for ''

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'' and ''

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'' before he was finally cast in a main role as Koda for ''

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''. He was cast as the lead in Mike Wiluan's Indonesian-language

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film ''

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''. The film was the first project back in his home country. The movie became Singapore's submission for the Oscars Foreign Film category. In August 2018, he joined the cast of the Manila-set independent drama ''Empty by Design'' and starred alongside

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and

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. The same month, it was announced he joined the cast in a key supporting role in his second Indonesian-language project Milly & Mamet, a spin-off from

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's popular ''Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?'' franchise, alongside Sissy Priscilla and Dennis Adhiswara. In 2022, Sudarso starred in the

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action film, '' Bullet Train'', as the younger version of

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's character, "the Elder."

Filmography

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sudarso, Yoshi 1989 births American male actors of Chinese descent American people of Chinese-Indonesian descent American male actors of Japanese descent California State University, Long Beach alumni Indonesian people of Chinese descent Indonesian people of Japanese descent Living people Indonesian emigrants to the United States