Diana Lee Inosanto
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Diana Lee Inosanto is an American actress, director, former stunt performer,[1] and martial artist.[2] She also wrote and directed the film The Sensei (2008),[3] and wrote the 2020 children's book The Curious Mind of Sebastian.[4]
Personal life
Inosanto is married to fellow martial artist Ron Balicki. They have two children.[5]
Career
Martial arts
Inosanto grew up surrounded by the martial arts world, studying many forms, including Jeet Kune Do and Eskrima, which she learned from her father, Dan Inosanto, a student of Jeet Kune Do founder Bruce Lee, who was also her godfather.[6] She has appeared on the cover of numerous martial arts magazines, including Black Belt Magazine, Martial Arts, Inside Karate, Self Defense, and Inside Kung Fu. She was named Woman of the Year by Black Belt Magazine in 2009.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Film and television
Apart from doing stunt work and choreography in numerous films and television productions, Inosanto has also acted in a number of movies and series. Her directorial debut, The Sensei, was released in 2008.[3]
In 2020, Inosanto appeared in one episode of the second season of Disney's The Mandalorian, playing the role of Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth.[7] She later reprised the role in Ahsoka and Star Wars: Tales of the Empire.[8] In the mid 2020s, she played Morgan Elsbeth in Star Wars: Ahsoka.[9]
Theatre
Inosanto is active in Southern California theatre as a member of the Asian American theatre group Lodestone Theatre Ensemble. In 2008, she worked with East West Players, serving as martial arts choreographer on the world premiere of Dan Kwong's play Be Like Water.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Writing
In 2020, Inosanto published her first book, the children's story The Curious Mind of Sebastian.[4] The same year, she also contributed a foreword to the Fiaz Rafiq book Bruce Lee: The Life of a Legend.[10]
Selected filmography
- Moonlighting (1986–87) (actress – 7 episodes)
- Barb Wire (1996) (stunts)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2002) (stunts – 7 episodes)
- Spy Game (1997) (stunts)
- Face/Off (1997) (stunts)
- Team Knight Rider (1997) (stunts)
- Red Corner (1997) (stunts)
- The Roseanne Show (1997) (stunts)
- Walker, Texas Ranger (1997–98) (stunts – 4 episodes)
- Blade (1998) (stunts, actress)
- The Patriot (1998) (stunts)
- The Last Man on Planet Earth (1999) (stunts)
- Wild Wild West (1999) (stunts)
- Mystery Men (1999) (stunts)
- MADtv (1999) (actress – 1 episode)
- Life Streams (2000) (actress, co-producer)
- Black Scorpion (2001) (stunts)
- Fists of Cheese (2002) (assistant stunt coordinator, associate producer)
- The Time Machine (2002) (actress)
- On Sundays (2002) (co-producer)
- A Ribbon of Dreams (2002) (associate producer)
- Modern Warriors (2002) (herself)
- Star Trek: Enterprise (2002–05) (stunts)
- Hulk (2003) (actress)
- 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003) (stunts)
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) (fight choreographer)
- The Vault (2005) (actress)
- Rent (2005) (actress)
- The Prodigy (2006) (actress, associate producer)
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) (actress)
- The Sensei (2008) (writer, director, producer, actress)[11]
- Sinners and Saints (2010) (co-producer, assistant stunt coordinator)
- I, Frankenstein (2014) (martial arts trainer to Aaron Eckhart / Socratis Otto)
- Spy (2015) (Martial arts trainer to Melissa McCarthy)
- The Mandalorian (2020) (actress – 1 episode)
- Ahsoka (2023) (actress – 7 episodes)[12]
- The Tiger's Apprentice (2024) (actress)
- Star Wars: Tales of the Empire (2024) (actress – 3 episodes)[13][14]
References
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- ↑ "The Sensei" profiled by Jane Mee Wong in Northwest Asian Weekly
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External links
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- American Jeet Kune Do practitioners
- American stunt performers
- American film actresses
- American actresses of Filipino descent
- Living people
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- Actresses of Filipino descent
- People from Carson, California
- People from Harbor City, Los Angeles
- American television actresses
- Narbonne High School alumni