Steve Akahoshi

To be a series regular on a primetime network television show is a plateau of success to which many actors aspire For Steven who starred as Doc Randy Matsuda on the critically acclaimed Emmy Award winning CBS Vietnam drama series Tour of Duty 1987 198788 and currently in syndication on TNT that success came early in his career That followed five days after his first break in show business a costarring role as Detective Shigeta in the Whoopi GoldbergSam Elliott feature film Fatal Beauty 1987 for MGMUA in which he earned his Screen Actors Guild card An impressive body of work in over 100 feature films television theater and commercial productions ensued including such fare as the successful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III for New Line Cinema the family drama A Year in the Life opposite Richard Kiley and Sarah Jessica Parker for NBC The OJ Simpson Story 1995 biopic for Fox TV and the actioner Back to Back 1996 for HBO