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# Shingo Usami

Actor. Born in Osaka, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84285788, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1331443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1059787

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*The Terror*](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md) (82)

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## Biography

Shingo Usami is a Japanese actor based in Sydney, Australia. Born and raised in Osaka, he studied at university in Tokyo, where he joined an amateur theatre group. After graduating in 1992, he taught Japanese in Milwaukee, United States, for three years before moving to Australia in 1996. He began working in film, television, theatre and multimedia from 1997.

Usami is known for roles including Shingo in *Red Dog* (2011), the Driver in *The Wolverine* (2013), Corporal Kono in *Unbroken* (2014), Henry Nakayama in the second season of *The Terror* (2019), Akira Hashimoto in *Invasion* (2021), and Clyde Raines in *NCIS: Sydney* (2025). He has also appeared in *The Pacific* (2010) and directed the short film *RICEBALLS* (2015). In theatre, he has performed in productions including *Miss Saigon* and co-directed *The Face of Jizo* (2023), for which he received nominations at the Sydney Theatre Awards.

*Sources: imdb.com, the-terror.fandom.com, seymourcentre.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Terror* (2018), Fi1m 82, as Henry Nakayama — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Thing of the Past* (2026), as Father
- *States of Mind* (2024), Acting
- *NCIS: Sydney* (2023), series, as Clyde Raines
- *Invasion* (2021), series, as Akira Hashimoto
- *Overcaterers Anonymous* (2020), as Simon
- *Nursery Rhymes* (2018), as Dad
- *Perisher* (2018), as Takeshi
- *The Terror* (2018), series, as Henry Nakayama — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md)
- *Coat of Arms* (2017), as Japanese Tourist
- *Unbroken* (2014), as Corporal Kono
- *Backyard Ashes* (2013), as Taka
- *The Wolverine* (2013), as Driver
- *Fugu & Tako* (2012), Acting
- *Red Dog* (2011), as Shingo
- *Broken Sun* (2010), as Masaru
- *Curtin* (2007), as Tatsuo Kawai
- *Moonfall* (2006), Acting

## Gallery

- ![Shingo Usami at Red Dog film premiere in Sydney (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/920944/gallery-c5ecc959ef97.jpg) Shingo Usami at Red Dog film premiere in Sydney (2011) — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Shingo_Usami_%286001447323%29.jpg/1280px-Shingo_Usami_%286001447323%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Shingo Usami](https://film.one/media/person/920944/gallery-7ad3cfee748b.jpg) Shingo Usami — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Shingo_Usami_at_Red_Dog_film_premiere_%286001447291%29.jpg/1280px-Shingo_Usami_at_Red_Dog_film_premiere_%286001447291%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Shingo Usami at Red Dog film premiere in Sydney (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/920944/gallery-964c0cd28d88.jpg) Shingo Usami at Red Dog film premiere in Sydney (2011) — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Shingo_Usami_at_Red_Dog_film_premiere_%286001447305%29.jpg/1280px-Shingo_Usami_at_Red_Dog_film_premiere_%286001447305%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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