Diane Mizota
Diane Mizota is a
Japanese
American dancer, actress, and
host.
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 is now hosting an online technology show for
Revision3 called
InDigital.
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Diane Mizota's official website
