Ian Anthony Dale

Growing up in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Dale attended Cretin-Derham Hall High School where he was a standout baseball player and also first discovered acting.^[1][2][3] His father Jack Dale played ice hockey for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and made the national team for the 1968 Winter Olympics.^[4] His mother is Japanese who immigrated from Kobe to the United States as a teenager.^[5][6]

Dale attended St. Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota, where he studied stage and theatre and then moved to Madison, Wisconsin, graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[2] During his first several years in Los Angeles, he worked as a carpenter building sets to make ends meet while taking acting classes and auditioning for roles.^[3]

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In 2004, Dale appeared in the film Mr. 3000 as "Fukuda", alongside Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett and Chris Noth. His next movie role was in 2007's The Bucket List as an instructor to Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman's characters in one of the scenes. In 2009, he followed that up with a minor part in The Hangover, appeared in the independent film Lollipops and starred in Tekken as Kazuya Mishima. In 2010, he appeared in the film Flying Lessons. In 2010, he also portrayed Scorpion in the short film of Mortal Kombat: Rebirth on YouTube.^[7] The film paved way for a web series, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, in which Dale reprised his role. He reprised his role in the second season.

Dale had his first television break on a 2002 episode of Fastlane. Since then he has appeared in episodes of Angel, JAG, Las Vegas, Charmed, 24, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Minds, Dollhouse and Cold Case.

Major television roles have included recurring character Davis Lee on Surface and Detective Christopher Choi on Day Break. Both series were only broadcast for one season and did not return for a second. Dale was a series regular in the NBC drama series The Event, which ran in the fall of 2010.

Beginning in 2011 with the second season, Dale portrayed the recurring role of Adam Noshimuri in the 2010 remake of Hawaii Five-O.^[8] The character was first introduced as the head of the Yakuza, later becoming a police officer; and current boyfriend, later husband, of Kono Kalakaua, who was portrayed by series regular Grace Park.^[9] Following Park's departure from the series, Dale was promoted to the main cast beginning with the eighth season,^[10] a role which he held until the series concluded with its tenth season in 2020.^[11] Dale also directed an episode of the series during its final season,^[12][13] and later crossed over to the 2018 reboot of Magnum, P.I. during its second season.^[14]

During his time on Hawaii Five-0 Dale was also cast in series regular roles on Murder in the First as Jim Koto and in Salvation, to portray Harris Edwards.^[15][16] Both roles were held for the entirety of both series run; three seasons from 2014–2016 and two seasons from 2017–2018, respectively.^[17][18] Other roles during this time included guest stints on The Mentalist^[19] and American Horror Story: Coven,^[20] two-episode story arcs on Emily Owens, M.D.^[21] and Hart of Dixie,^[22] and the unsold television adaptation of Delirium.^[23]

Following Hawaii Five-0 Dale had a brief recurring role as Louis Bravo on the American legal drama All Rise,^[24] and was cast to portray Tomi, Yumiko's long lost brother in the eleventh and final season of The Walking Dead.^[25] In November 2022 Dale was cast to play Dr. James Yamada on The Resident.^[26]

In May 2024, Dale was cast to play Sean Harimoto on Fox series Rescue: HI-Surf.^[27]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Mr. 3000	Fukuda
2007	The Bucket List	Instructor
2009	The Hangover	Chow's #1
	Tekken	Kazuya Mishima
	Flying Lessons	Lance
2010	Mortal Kombat: Rebirth	Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion
2016	XOXO	Anders
2017	Wakefield	Ben Jacobs

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Fastlane	Jackson Yu	Episode: "Mighty Blue"
2003	Angel	Drugged Vampire #3	Episode: "Release"
	JAG	Lance Corporal Brad Owens	Episode: "The Boast"
2004	Las Vegas	Jonathan Tam	Episode: "Die Fast, Die Furious"
	Hawaii	Lieutenant Robertson	Episode: "No Man Is an Island"
	Second Time Around	Sam Chang	Episode: "No, No"
	Charmed	Avatar Gamma	5 episodes
2005	North Shore	Garrett Haynes	Episode: "The End"
2005–2006	Surface	Davis Lee	Main role
2006–2007	Day Break	Detective Christopher Choi	Main role
2006–2009	Criminal Minds	Lt. Detective Owen Kim	2 episodes
2007	Without a Trace	David Kwon	Episode: "Without You"
	Bones	Commander James Adams	Episode: "Spaceman in a Crater"
	24	Zhou Yong	2 episodes
	Cold Case	Ray Takahashi	Episode: "Family 8108"
2009	CSI: NY	Ellis Park	Episode: "The Past, Present and Murder"
	Dollhouse	Jack Dunston	Episode: "Haunted"
	CSI: Miami	Evan Wilcox	Episode: "Kill Clause"
2010	Trauma	Andy Wu	Episode: "Protocol"
	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Lon Rose	Episode: "The Panty Sniffer"
2010–2011	The Event	Agent Simon Lee	Main role
2011	Burn Notice	Xavier	Episode: "Damned If You Do"
2011–2020	Hawaii Five-0	Adam Noshimuri	Recurring role (seasons 2–7)
			Main role (seasons 8–10) and director; 1 episode
2012	The Mentalist	Nathaniel Kim	Episode: "Red Dawn"
	Emily Owens, M.D.	Dr. Kyle Putnam	2 episodes
2013	American Horror Story: Coven	Dr. David Zhong	Episode: "Bitchcraft"
2014	Delirium	Liam	Unsold TV pilot
2014–2016	Murder in the First	Jim Koto	Main role
2015	Hart of Dixie	Henry Dalton	2 episodes[28]
2017–2018	Salvation	Harris Edwards	Main role
2020	Magnum P.I.	Adam Noshimuri	Episode: "A Leopard on the Prowl"
2021–2022	The Walking Dead	Tomi	Recurring role (season 11); 7 episodes
2021–2023	All Rise	DA Louis Bravo	Recurring role (seasons 2–3) 16 episodes
2022	The Resident	Dr. James Yamada	Season 6
2023	Accused	Jiro Tamura	Episode: "Jiro's Story"
2024–2025	Rescue: HI-Surf	Sean Harimoto	Recurring role; 5 episodes

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011–2013	Mortal Kombat: Legacy	Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion	5 episodes

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Sleeping Dogs	Ricky Wong
	Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Multiplayer Voices
2015	Battlefield Hardline	Marvin The Thief
2024	Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth	Jo Sawashiro	[29]
2026	ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN	SilverSox	[30]