Ian Anthony Dale

Ian Anthony Dale (born July 3, 1978) is an American actor who has a main role as Adam Noshimuri, ex-husband of former main character Kono Kalakaua, on Hawaii Five-0. Other notable roles include Deputy Secretary of Defense Harris Edwards on Salvation, Simon Lee on The Event, Davis Lee on Surface, Avatar Gamma on Charmed and Kazuya Mishima in Tekken. He has also appeared on shows such as Las Vegas, JAG, Day Break, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Criminal Minds; in 2007, he appeared in 24 as the minor character Zhou.

Ian Anthony Dale
Born	July 3, 1978 Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation	Actor and director
Years active	2002–present
Spouse(s)	Nicole Garippo ​ (m. 2016)​
Children	2

Early life

Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Dale attended Cretin-Derham Hall High School where he was a standout baseball player and also first discovered acting.[1][2][3] His father Jack Dale, who is of English and French descent, played ice hockey for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and made the national team for the 1968 Winter Olympics.[4] His mother is Japanese and immigrated from Kobe to the United States as a teenager.[5][6]

Dale attended St. Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota where he studied stage and theatre and then moved to Madison, Wisconsin, graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[2] During his first several years in Los Angeles, he worked as a carpenter building sets to make ends meet while taking acting classes and auditioning for roles.[3]

Career

Film

In 2004, Dale appeared in the film Mr. 3000 as "Fukuda", alongside Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett and Chris Noth. His next movie role was in 2007's The Bucket List as an instructor to Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman's characters in one of the scenes. In 2009, he followed that up with a minor part in The Hangover, appeared in the independent film Lollipops and starred in Tekken as Kazuya Mishima. In 2010, he appeared in the film Flying Lessons. In 2010, he also portrayed Scorpion in the short film of Mortal Kombat: Rebirth on YouTube.[7] The film paved way for a web series, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, in which Dale reprised his role. He reprised his role in the second season.

Television

Dale had his first television break on a 2002 episode of Fastlane. Since then he has appeared in episodes of Angel, JAG, Las Vegas, Charmed, 24, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Minds, Dollhouse and Cold Case.

Major television roles have included recurring character Davis Lee on Surface and Detective Christopher Choi on Day Break. Both series were only broadcast for one season and did not return for a second. Dale was a series regular in the NBC drama series The Event, which ran in the fall of 2010. Dale also recurs in Murder in the First as Lieutenant Jim Koto[2] and also portrayed Deputy Secretary of Defense Harris Edwards for two seasons on Salvation.

Dale plays the role of Adam Noshimuri in Hawaii Five-0 which he starred in 2011. Beginning with the 8th season of Hawaii Five-0 Dale was promoted to a series regular along with new co-star Meaghan Rath and Beulah Koale.

Acting credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Mr. 3000	Fukuda
2007	The Bucket List	Instructor
2009	The Hangover	Chow's #1
2009	Lollipops	Detective Jones	Short film
2009	Tekken	Kazuya Mishima
2009	Flying Lessons	Lance
2010	Mortal Kombat: Rebirth	Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion
2016	XOXO	Anders
2017	Wakefield	Ben Jacobs

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Fastlane	Jackson Yu	Episode: "Mighty Blue"
2003	Angel	Drugged Vampire #3	Episode: "Release"
2003	JAG	Lance Corporal Brad Owens	Episode: "The Boast"
2004	Las Vegas	Jonathan Tam	Episode: "Die Fast, Die Furious"
2004	Hawaii	Lieutenant Robertson	Episode: "No Man Is an Island"
2004	Second Time Around	Sam Chang	Episode: "No, No"
2004	Charmed	Avatar Gamma	5 episodes
2005	North Shore	Garrett Haynes	Episode: "The End"
2005–2006	Surface	Davis Lee	Main 11 episodes
2006–2007	Day Break	Detective Christopher Choi	Main 12 episodes
2006–2009	Criminal Minds	Lt. Detective Owen Kim	2 episodes
2007	Without a Trace	David Kwon	Episode: "Without You"
2007	Bones	Commander James Adams	Episode: "Spaceman in a Crater"
2007	24	Zhou Yong	2 episodes
2007	Cold Case	Ray Takahashi	Episode: "Family 8108"
2009	CSI: NY	Ellis Park	Episode: "The Past, Present and Murder"
2009	Dollhouse	Jack Dunston	Episode: "Haunted"
2009	CSI: Miami	Evan Wilcox	Episode: "Kill Clause"
2010	Trauma	Andy Wu	Episode: "Protocol"
2010	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Lon Rose	Episode: "The Panty Sniffer"
2010–2011	The Event	Agent Simon Lee	Main 19 episodes
2011	Burn Notice	Xavier	Episode: "Damned If You Do"
2011–2020	Hawaii Five-0	Adam Noshimuri	Recurring (seasons 2–7)
			Main (season 8–10) 96 episodes and Director; 1 episode
2012	The Mentalist	Nathaniel Kim	Episode: "Red Dawn"
2012	Emily Owens, M.D.	Dr. Kyle Putnam	2 episodes
2013	American Horror Story: Coven	Dr. David Zhong	Episode: "Bitchcraft"
2014	Delirium	Liam	Unsold TV pilot
2014–2016	Murder in the First	Jim Koto	Main 32 episodes
2015	Hart of Dixie	Henry Dalton[8]	2 episodes
2017–2018	Salvation	Harris Edwards	Main 26 episodes
2020	Magnum P.I.	Adam Noshimuri	Episode: "A Leopard on the Prowl"
2021	All Rise	DA Louis Bravo	Episode: "Bounceback"

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011–2013	Mortal Kombat: Legacy	Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion	5 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Sleeping Dogs	Ricky Wong
2012	Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Multiplayer Voices
2015	Battlefield Hardline	Marvin The Thief

Directing credits

Year	Title	Notes
2020	Hawaii Five-0	Episode: "He waha kou o ka he'e"

References

1. "Ian Anthony Dale '96". cretin-derhamhall.org.
2. "St. Paul native Ian Anthony Dale gets advice from cop brother for TNT show". St. Paul Pioneer Press. July 5, 2014.
3. "Q&A with Ian Anthony Dale". Mpls St. Paul. August 29, 2014.
4. Justin, Neal (August 9, 2015). "St. Paul's Ian Anthony Dale is a familiar face on TV, but eyeing bigger roles". Star Tribune.
5. "Ian Anthony Dale interview: Growing up". YouTube (Asians on Film). October 18, 2010.
6. "C.J.: St. Paul native Ian Anthony Dale stars in TNT's 'Murder in the First'". Star Tribune. July 12, 2014.
7. "Massive Walking Dead Season 3 Image Gallery - Dread Central". 28 September 2012.
8. "Hart of Dixie Enlists Hawaii Five-0 Actor to Play 'Superman' in Season 4". July 1, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2014.

External links

• Ian Anthony Dale at IMDb
• Ian Anthony Dale on Twitter