James Saito (American Actor) – Wife, Shredder, Net Worth, Family

James Saito is an American actor of Japanese descent, best known as the original Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and as Dr Chen in the ABC series Eli Stone (2008). Along with film and television, James has worked extensively in theater, including the Broadway productions of The King and I (1997) and David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child (1998). Off-Broadway plays include Sarah Ruhl’s The Oldest Boy (2014) at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center and Julia Cho’s Durango at The Public Theater for which he won an Obie award in 2007. He was born in Los Angeles, California and received a degree in theater at UCLA.

James Saito Biography

James Tomio Saito was born in Los Angeles, California United States on 6th March 1955, he is 64 years as of 2019. He is an American citizen and of Asian ethnicity. He is of Japanese descent. James now lives in New York City and studied with Uta Hagen at HB studio. He was in the last group of students who studied with Sanford Meisner on the island of Bequia in the Grenadines and then continued with Mr. Meisner in North Hollywood. He worked with Stella Adler in her scene study and script interpretation classes. James wanted to learn as many styles and techniques of acting because he found that different roles or situations may need a different tool to find the truth or to play it more effectively. So along with these 3 legendary teachers, he also studied with Milton Katselas, Wynn Handman, Peggy Feury, Jose Quintero and Nina Foch.

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Career: James has worked extensively in theater, including the Broadway productions of The King and I (1997) and David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child (1998). Off-Broadway plays include Sarah Ruhl’s The Oldest Boy (2014) at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center and Julia Cho’s Durango at The Public Theater for which he won an Obie award in 2007. He also appeared in the Off-Broadway production Greater Clements in 2019.His career kickstarted with his physical portrayal of The Shredder in the 1990 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; the character was voiced by David McCharen. He also appeared in films like The Devil’s Advocate, Home Alone 3, Pearl Harbor, and Die Hard with a Vengeance. He also appeared in M*A*S*H, MacGyver, Law & Order, Miami Vice and Sex and the City.

In 2008, James played Tokugawa Ieyasu in Shogun, as part of the BBC’s Heroes and Villains series, (focusing on historical people who have attracted polarized opinion, in modern-day, or by their contemporaries.) In 2007, he won an Obie Award for his performance in Julia Cho’s Durango at The Public Theater in New York City.