Adele Yoshioka

Born in San Diego California Yoshioka has started her career as an actress in the late 1960s Following her appearance on Star Trek she also worked on episodes of Mannix 1970 with John Wheeler LaughIn 1972 with Frank Welker Anna and the King 1972 with Samantha Eggar Keye Luke and Brian Tochi Banacek 1972 with Ned Romero Kermit Murdock Louise Sorel Peter Brocco and Bob Harks The Magician 1974 with France Nuyen and Bob Harks and directed by Alexander Singer Kung Fu 1975 with Keye Luke and Clyde Kusatsu The Paper Chase 1978 with Earl Boen and Charles Hallahan and Night Court 1984 with Karen Austin John Larroquette John Staible Juan De Villa and Tony Rocco Her appearance from Kung Fu was later reused in the film version Kung Fu The Movie in 1986 Yoshioka had memorable appearances as Suzuki in Gaily Gaily 1969 with Brian Keith Harvey Jason Peter Brocco and Don Keefer as MaiLing Chan in The Return of Charlie Chan 1973 with Louise Sorel and as Sunny in Magnum Force 1973 with Mitchell Ryan David Soul and Wayne Grace Other film work include Sweet Charity 1969 with Ricardo Montalban Ben Vereen John Wheeler Jimmy Fields Lance LeGault and Buddy Joe Hooker the television drama They Only Come Out at Night 1975 with Tim OConnor and Barbara Luna Swashbuckler 1976 with Genevieve Bujold Sid Haig Harry Basch Henry Kingi Sr Anthony De Longis and Bob Minor the exercise video Maximum Potential 1987 with Mark DeAlessandro the television thriller The Perfect Bride 1991 with Marilyn Rockafellow and directed by Terrence OHara the thriller Distant Cousins 1993 with Mary Crosby Brian Bonsall and Cyndi Pass the horror thriller The Nurse 1997 with Jay Underwood and Richard Penn and the thriller A Table for One 1999 with Mark Rolston Yoshioka is a founding member and cochairperson of the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment where she also served on the Board of Directors Other boards she serves on include the Association of Asian Pacific American Artists and East West Players Yoshioka has held several executive positions at Image Organization Behaviour Worldwide CineTel Films and World International Network