Kiralee Hayashi

Kiralee Hayashi
Born	Hawaii, U.S.
Occupations	Actress stuntwoman gymnast
Years active	2007–present
Website	kiraleehayashi.com

Kiralee M. Hayashi is an American stunt woman, actress,[1] and gymnast.

She is known for her work on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction, and The Book of Eli.[2]

Background

Hayashi was born and raised in Hawaii.[1] She is of Japanese, Portuguese, English & Irish descent.[1] Her success as a gymnast gained her a full scholarship to UCLA,[1] where she studied neuroscience.[3]

Academia

While at UCLA she did research in the Paul Thompson's group at Laboratory of Neuro Image (LONI). She co-authored several papers on neuroscience topics.[4]

She has a low Erdős number of just three through the publication Brain surface parameterization using Riemann surface structure which was coauthored by Shing-Tung Yau.[5] Yau published On sampling Markov chains together with Ronald Graham, and Graham authored On Sum of Fibonacci Numbers together with Paul Erdős.[6]

Gymnastics

While at UCLA she was also a notable gymnast.[3] One of the most highly recruited freshmen her graduating year. She garnered 9 All-American titles (both first and second team). And was a National Balance Beam champion. She was Pac-10 gymnast of the year in 1999 and Pac-10 Conference Medalist[a] for 1998-99, her senior year.[7][8] And was a two-time Pac-10 All-Academic selection. Hayashi was a finalist for the AAI American Award, given annually to the nation's most outstanding all-around senior gymnast.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Wasabi Tuna	"Sexy Asian Girl #2"[9]
2007	Balls of Fury	"Hot Asian Servant Girl"[10]	Uncredited
2007	Haunted Forest	Satinka[11]
2010	The Book of Eli	Stuntwoman
2011	The Green Hornet	Stuntwoman[12]	Uncredited
2011	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1	Stuntwoman
2012	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2	Stuntwoman
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction
2016	Independence Day: Resurgence	Stuntwoman

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
	NCIS
	Grey's Anatomy	Tracey Mitchell
	Supah Ninjas

Notes

1. A Conference Medal is awarded annually to each member institution's outstanding male and female student-athlete based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership.

References

1. "Kiralee Hayashi - Stunt Double". HawaiiNewsNow. 26 December 2012.
2. Kiralee Hayashi at IMDB.
3. "UCLA Gymnastics Season Wrap-Up". UCLA Athletics. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
4. "Kiralee M Hayashi's scientific contributions in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain". ResearchGate. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
5. Yalin Wang, Xianfeng Gu, Kiralee M. Hayashi, Tony F. Chan, Paul M. Thompson, Shing-Tung Yau (2005). "Brain surface parameterization using Riemann surface structure". Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 8. pp. 657–655. doi:10.1007/11566489_81. ISBN 978-3-540-29326-2. PMID 16686016.
6. Paul Erdős and Ronald Graham (1972). "On Sums of Fibonacci Numbers". Fibonacci Quarterly. 10 (3): 249–254. doi:10.1080/00150517.1972.12430934.
7. "Hayashi Awarded Pac-10 Conference Medal". UCLA Bruins. 1999-06-09. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
8. "Stuart, Hayashi Awarded Pac-10 Conference Medals". UCLA. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
9. "Wasabi Tuna (2003) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.
10. "Balls of Fury (2007) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.
11. "Haunted Forest (2007)". IMDb.
12. "The Green Hornet (2011) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.

External links

• Kiralee Hayashi on Twitter
• Kiralee Hayashi's channel on YouTube