Togo igawa biography
Togo Igawa
Japanese actor
Yoshiyuki Baba (馬場 義之, Baba Yoshiyuki), known professionally as Togo Igawa (伊川 東吾, Igawa Tōgo), is a Japanese character actor who works primarily in British theatre, films and television. He was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2012 for his role in Total War: Shogun 2.[1]
Career
Igawa founded Black Tent Theatre, a theatrical group in Japan[2] before moving to the UK and becoming the first Japanese member of The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986.[3][4]
He went on to have roles in major films such as Revolver, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Samurai, and A Matter of Size.[5]
Additionally, Igawa provides the voices of Professor Moshimo in Robotboy, and Hiro in the Thomas & Friends franchise starting with 2009's Hero of the Rails. He also appears in 2011's Johnny English Reborn, the sequel to Johnny English, as English's Tibetan guru and is in the 2012 film Gambit pl Hiroyuki sanada!