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=
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Year
! TV Show ! Role ! Notes |
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2025
| Dr. Nancy Willis | Episode: "A Perfect Family" |
2025
| General Store Shop Keeper (voice) | 2 episodes |
2023
| 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
| Dr. Lang | 4 episodes |
2017
| Nurse | 3 episodes |
2017
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2016
| ''Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street | Miss Tran | 2 episodes |
2016
| Broke A$$ Rich Kid | | |
2016
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2015
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2015
| Gypsi | Ann Dupree | 2 episodes |
2015
| Mom | | |
2015
| Cristela | | |
2014
| Revenge | | |
2014
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2010
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2010
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1994
| Hot Line | | |
1996
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2005
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2007
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2008
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2009
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1992
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=Film=
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Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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2016 | The Perfect Match | Sophia | |
2015 | The Viking and the Pendulum | Isi | Short |
Spy Game | Singer | ||
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | Singer | ||
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe | Singer | ||
2007 | He Was a Quiet Man | Nancy Felt | |
2006 | All In | Asian Player 5 | |
The Da Vinci Code | Singer | ||
Illegal Tender | Singer | ||
2010 | What Would Jesus Do? | Waitress | |
1995 | No Way Back | Singer-Songwriter | |
1995 | Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back | Karen Banning | |
1994 | The Shadow | Concubine | |
1993 | American Yakuza | Yuko |
=Video games=
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170917123550/http://www.anzulawson.com/ Official site]
- https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0493188
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Category:American television actresses
Category:American film actresses
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:American actresses of Japanese descent
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century American women