Anzu Lawson

{{short description|American actress}}

Anzu Lawson is an American actress, singer, songwriter, comedian, playwright, director and screenwriter.{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800238406 |title=Yahoo! Entertainment |publisher=Movies.yahoo.com |date= |accessdate=2011-09-17}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/cristina-lawson/145582h |title=TV Guide |publisher=TV Guide |date= |accessdate=2011-09-17}}{{cite web|url=http://www.movieweb.com/person/anzu-lawson |title=MovieWeb |publisher=MovieWeb |date= |accessdate=2011-09-17}}{{cite web |url=http://www.flixster.com/actor/cristina-anzu-lawson |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123230700/http://www.flixster.com/actor/cristina-anzu-lawson |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-23 |title=Flixster |publisher=Flixster |date=2010-05-28 |accessdate=2011-09-17 }}

Music

Lawson was signed to Japanese a label where she reached number 1 on the Japanese Billboard charts with her cover of the single "The Rose" on Avex Records.{{cite web|url=http://avexnet.jp/id/anzuc/index.html |title=avex network |publisher=Avexnet.jp |date=2000-04-19 |accessdate=2011-09-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629185110/http://avexnet.jp/id/anzuc/index.html |archivedate=2011-06-29 }}

She also reached number 1 on the European Dance charts with her single "Sweet Clarity" with a project called Aquabox produced by Lee Curreri.{{cite web|url=http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/Aquabox |title=Aquabox |publisher=Cdbaby.com |date= |accessdate=2011-09-17}}

She has also sung on multiple movie soundtracks produced by Harry Gregson-Williams, Heitor Pereira and Hans Zimmer such as The Chronicles of Narnia, Spy Game, The Da Vinci Code, Sinbad, and Illegal Tender. She also wrote the song "I Am Onto You" for No Way Back, starring Russell Crowe and directed by Frank Cappello.

Her first screen test was at age 8 to play Mako's granddaughter for an East West Players film production and she starred in her first American movie opposite Viggo Mortensen in American Yakuza, directed by Frank Cappello.{{cite web |url=http://flixster.com/movie/american-yakuza |title=Flixster |publisher=Flixster |date= |accessdate=2011-09-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110829003338/http://www.flixster.com/movie/american-yakuza |archive-date=2011-08-29 |url-status=dead }} Frank Cappello also directed the dark comedy He Was A Quiet Man, where he cast Anzu opposite Christian Slater, to play his neighbor. She was nominated "Best Actress" for her role as Yoko Ono in 2014 at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in the musical Rock and Roll's Greatest Lovers.

Comedy

As a stand-up comic, Anzu performs in comedy festivals as well as The Hollywood and Brea Improv, The Laugh Factory, The Ha-Ha Café, The Comedy Store and The IceHouse Pasadena.{{cite web|url=http://fwix.com/baltimore/share/adbfc6f017/anzu_lawson_lands_big_laughs_at_the_hollywood_improv |title=FWIX |publisher=FWIX |date=2010-02-11 |accessdate=2011-09-17}}

Filmography

Lawson's TV and film credits are below:{{cite web|url=http://www.fandango.com/cristinaanzulawson/filmography/p239052 |title=Fandango |publisher=Fandango |date= |accessdate=2011-09-17}}

=TV=

class="wikitable"
Year

! TV Show

! Role

! Notes

2025

| Law & Order

| Dr. Nancy Willis

| Episode: "A Perfect Family"

2025

| My Happy Marriage

| General Store Shop Keeper (voice)

| 2 episodes

2023

| Heavenly Delusion

| Director (voice)

| 4 episodes

2022

| Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall

| Strength (voice)

| 5 episodes

2020

| Mickey and the Roadster Racers

| Michiko Duck (voice), Additional Voices

| Episode: "Hanami Hijinks/Happy Harajuku Helpers"

2017

| Guilty Party

| Principal Lee

| 9 episodes

2017

| The Young and the Restless

| Dr. Lang

| 4 episodes

2017

| NCIS: Los Angeles

| Nurse

| 3 episodes

2017

| Fuller House

|

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2016

| ''Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street

| Miss Tran

| 2 episodes

2016

| Broke A$$ Rich Kid

|

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2016

| CSI: Cyber

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2015

| Hand of God

|

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2015

| Gypsi

| Ann Dupree

| 2 episodes

2015

| Mom

|

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2015

| Cristela

|

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2014

| Revenge

|

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2014

| Ray Donovan

|

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2010

| 'Til Death

|

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2010

| Make It or Break It

|

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1994

| Hot Line

|

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1996

| Goode Behavior

|

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2005

| The King of Queens

|

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2007

| Mind of Mencia

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2008

| Without A Trace

|

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2009

| Criminal Minds

|

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1992

| Full House

|

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=Film=

class="wikitable"
YearFilmRoleNotes
2016The Perfect MatchSophia
2015The Viking and the PendulumIsiShort
Spy GameSinger
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven SeasSinger
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the WardrobeSinger
2007He Was a Quiet ManNancy Felt
2006All InAsian Player 5
The Da Vinci CodeSinger
Illegal TenderSinger
2010What Would Jesus Do?Waitress
1995No Way BackSinger-Songwriter
1995Best of the Best 3: No Turning BackKaren Banning
1994The ShadowConcubine
1993American YakuzaYuko

=Video games=

class="wikitable"
YearGameRole
2024Dead Rising Deluxe RemasterJo Slade
2020Ghost of TsushimaAnkshar Khatun/The Eagle
2013Killer InstinctBlack Orchid{{cite web |title=Anzu Lawson (visual voices guide) |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Anzu-Lawson/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=13 June 2021|type= A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information}}

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