Anzu Lawson

Anzu Lawson, (born Cristina Anzu Lawson in Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States) and is an American actress, singer, songwriter, comedian, director and screenwriter. She has also been credited under the names Cristina Lawson, Cristina Anzu Lawson and Anzu Cristina.^[1][2][3][4] Lawson is of partial Japanese descent. She speaks fluent Japanese. She graduated from UCLA's Screenwriting Program in 2009.

Early life

Anzu Lawson is the oldest of two children. Her American father was in the Navy, stationed in Japan, when he met and married her mother, Keiko. The family moved to Cerritos, California where they lived until Anzu was 15 years old, at which point the two girls moved to Japan with their mother. She was signed to AVEX Records - Japan where she reached Number #1 on the Japanese Billboard Charts in 2003 with her cover of the "The Rose."

Music

Lawson was signed to Japanese a label where she reached number 1 on the Japanese Billboard charts with her cover of the single "The Rose" on Avex Records.^[5] She also reached number 1 on the European Dance charts with her single "Sweet Clarity" with a project called Aquabox produced by Lee Curreri.^[6] She has also sung on multiple movie soundtracks produced by Harry Gregson-Williams, Heitor Pereira and Hans Zimmer such as The Chronicles of Narnia, Spy Game, The Davinci Code, Sinbad, and Illegal Tender. She also wrote the song “I Am Onto You” for No Way Back, starring Russell Crowe and directed by Frank Cappello.^[7][8] In addition to singing and songwriting, Anzu also plays the piano, guitar and flute.

Acting

Her first screen test was at age 8 to play Mako's granddaughter for an East West Players film production and she starred in her first American movie opposite Viggo Mortensen in American Yakuza, directed by Frank Cappello.^[9] Frank Cappello also directed the dark comedy He Was A Quiet Man, where he cast Anzu opposite Christian Slater, to play his neighbor. She was nominated "Best Actress" for her role as Yoko Ono in 2014 at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in the musical Rock and Roll's Greatest Lovers.

Comedy

As a stand-up comic, Anzu performs in comedy festivals as well as The Hollywood and Brea Improv, The Laugh Factory, The Ha-Ha Café, The Comedy Store and The IceHouse Pasadena.^[10]

Filmography

Lawson's TV and film credits are below:^{[4][11][12][13]}

TV

TV Show	Year
Revenge	2014
Mom	2015
Cristela	2015
Ray Donovan	2014
Hot Line	1994
Dream On	1995
Goode Behavior	1996
The King of Queens	2005
Mind of Mencia	2007
Without A Trace	2008
Criminal Minds	2009
'Til Death	2010
Hand Of God	2015
Make It or Break It	2010

Film

Film	Role	Year
American Yakuza	Yuko	1993
The Shadow	Actress	1994
No Way Back	Singer-Songwriter	1995
Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back	Actress	1995
Spy Game	Singer	2001
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas	Singer	2003
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe	Singer	2005
All In	Actress	2006
The Da Vinci Code	Singer	2006
He Was a Quiet Man	Nancy Felt	2007
Illegal Tender	Singer	2007
What Would Jesus Do?	Actress	2010

Video Games

Game	Role	Year
Killer Instinct	Black Orchid	2013

References

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4. "Flixster". Flixster. 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
5. "avex network". Avexnet.jp. 2000-04-19. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
6. "Aquabox". Cdbaby.com. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
7. Anzu Lawson at the Internet Movie Database
8. "Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
9. "Flixster". Flixster. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
10. "FWIX". FWIX. 2010-02-11. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
11. Anzu Lawson at the Internet Movie Database
12. "Fandango". Fandango. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
13. "TV.Com". TV.Com. Retrieved 2011-09-17.