Sulu
Like his co-stars, George Takei, born in 1937, spent many years trying to shake off the persona of Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu. But after embracing...
Like his co-stars, George Takei, born in 1937, spent many years trying to shake off the persona of Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu. But after embracing all of what Star Trek represented, Takei enjoyed something of a career renaissance. He acted in mostly small roles before Trek, co-starred in John Wayne’s The Green Berets. Besides reprising the role of Sulu in six feature films, he immersed himself in California politics, became an author, and in recent years seems to be almost everywhere, appearing on a wide variety of TV shows and most recently on stage in the musical Allegiance, set during the Japanese American internment of World War II, which Takei himself experienced as a child.