Diane Mizota
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Diane Mizota is a Japanese American dancer, actress, and host.
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Mizota was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Danville, California. Her ethnic background is Japanese. Diane studied dance in high school and in UCLA and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Communication Studies.
Mizota began her career as a dancer working on dozens of commercials and music videos. Her talents would not go unnoticed as she landed roles as a dancer in the film, That Thing You Do! in 1996 and the films Out to Sea and Boogie Nights in 1997. In 2000, Mizota played Katy in the MTV comedy/drama Undressed, guest starred on the soap opera Passions, and danced in Boys and Girls, Beautiful, and Monkeybone in 2001.
Mizota appeared in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) as Fook Mi, alongside Carrie Ann Inaba who played her twin sister Fook Yu. The two women are not related, but when Mizota had been cast for her role, she was asked if she knew any actresses who resembled her and suggested Inaba. Inaba, who had appeared briefly in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, was given the role and the two women were made up to appear as identical twins. Mizota and Inaba would later repeat their roles with Mike Myers in a commercial for Motorola.
In 2003 Mizota co-hosted the annual video game awards G-Phoria along with comedian Jamie Kennedy and Victor Lucas, host of the video game show, The Electric Playground. Mizota was a host for Discovery Kids' Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls on NBC and a video game countdown show, Filter on G4. On December 9th, 2005, Mizota announced that G4 had cancelled the series and the last episode of Filter aired on December 19th, 2005. G4 has since announced that Filter will be returning in June 2006. Mizota's time on the G4 Network has given her a wide fanbase.
Also in 2005, Mizota took part in the reality show, Three Wishes starring Amy Grant and had a role in Rob Marshall's feature film, Memoirs of a Geisha.
Mizota hosted an online technology show for Revision3 called InDigital, but has since been replaced.
Diane Mizota is the current spokeswoman for Time Warner Cable, under the name "Karen".
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Played as Fook Mi, one of the Japanese twins in Austin Powers: Goldmember
