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Miyoshi Umeki
was a naturalized American actress and standards singer. She was best known for her roles as Katsumi, the wife of Joe Kelly (Red Buttons), in the 1957 film ''Sayonara'', as Mei Li in the 1958 Broadway musical and 1961 film ''Flower Drum Song'', and as Mrs. Livingston, the housekeeper of Bill Bixby's and Brandon Cruz's characters, in the TV series ''The Courtship of Eddie's Father''. She was a shin Issei or post-1945 immigrant from Japan. She was a Tony Award- and Golden Globe-nominated actress and was the first (and, as of 2015, the only) Asian woman to win an Academy Award for acting.〔("Oscar winner Miyoshi Umeki dies at 78" ). ''USA Today''. 5 September 2007.〕
==Life==
Born in Otaru, Hokkaidō,〔 she was the youngest of nine children. Her father owned an iron factory.〔 After World War II, Umeki began her career as a nightclub singer in Japan, using the name Nancy Umeki,〔Lavietes, Stuart. ("Miyoshi Umeki, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 78" ). ''International Herald Tribune''. 6 September 2007.〕 Her early influences were traditional Kabuki theater and American pop music.〔 Later, in one of her appearances on ''The Merv Griffin Show'', she treated viewers to her impression of singer Billy Eckstine, one of her American favorites growing up.
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