Shingo Usami
Actor / Voice artist
Shingo Usami is a Sydney-based Japanese actor/voice artist. He has been working extensively in film, TV, theatre, and other multi-media in Australia and Japan since 1997.
He is known for roles such as Henry Nakayama on AMC's The Terror: Infamy and Akira Hashimoto on Apple TV+'s science fiction series Invasion. His other TV and film credits include: NCIS Sydney, Last Days of The Space Age, Broken Sun, Curtin, The Pacific, Red Dog, The Wolverine – Samurai, Emperor, Backyard Ashes, Paper Planes, and Unbroken. A 2016 short film, RICEBALLS, which he directed and starred in, was screened at film festivals worldwide and received several awards.
His theatre credits include: the Australian tour of Miss Saigon, Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes, Coup d’Etat, and Griffin Theatre Company’s The Floating World. In 2023, he co-directed and performed in Hisashi Inoue's Japanese classic play The Face of Jizo (父と暮せば） for which he was nominated for multiple awards, such as the Sydney Theatre Awards and Time Out Arts & Culture Awards. The return season of The Face of Jizo will open at Seymour Centre on 21 August.