Keith Cooke

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Keith Hirabayashi Cooke (born September 17, 1959; also known as Keith H. Cooke and sometimes credited as Keith Cooke Hirabayashi) is a film-actor and an occasional stuntman.

Cooke has trained in wushu, tae kwon do and karate. His awards include Black Belt's 1985 Competitor of the Year and five grand champion titles at the U.S. World and U.S. Open Karate tournaments.

He had a leading role in the sci-fi/martial arts thriller Heatseeker (1995), which was a follow-up to the Cynthia Rothrock vehicle China O'Brien (1990) in which he also appeared. He showed an array of impressive kicks in the film and displayed the form that made him a perennial tournament champion in his competition days.

However, fans of the Mortal Kombat movie-series know him as the person who portrayed the character Reptile in the first movie. He returned in the less popular sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation now portraying the younger Sub-Zero. It has been rumoured that he will also portray Sub-Zero in the upcoming third movie Mortal Kombat: Devastation.

His mother is Japanese, and his father is a Scottish-American.

Cooke now teaches martial arts at his school Champions Martial Arts, in Brentwood, California. He lives with his wife Suzanne and their son Jake.

[edit] External link

Keith Cooke at the Internet Movie Database