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Takehiro Hira (平 岳大, Hira Takehiro, born July 27, 1974) is a Japanese stage, film and television actor.

Hira was born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, to actors Mikijiro Hira and Yoshiko Sakuma. He grew up in Japan until the age of 15. He completed high school at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, and then enrolled at Brown University.

He made his stage debut in 2002 in the play "Rokumeikan," written by Yukio Mishima. He worked closely with his father Mikijiro Hira, also a Japanese actor. Takehiro played Iago in a production of "Othello," in which his father played Othello. He gained wide recognition for playing the last shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, in the NHK taiga drama "Atsuhime." He has appeared in several films by Takashi Miike, including "Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai," "The Lawyer" and "Aku no Kyoten." He plays Natsuka Masaie in the high-budget film "Nobo's Castle."

In 2005 he played the role of the actor-queen in an English stage production of "Hamlet," in which Michael Maloney played the title role. This three-month tour was well received in many places across the UK.

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    He is the son of Yoshiko Sakuma and Mikijiro Hira.

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