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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, 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.

Background

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

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.

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. Yau published On sampling Markov chains together with Ronald Graham, and Graham authored On Sum of Fibonacci Numbers together with Paul Erdős.

Gymnastics

While at UCLA she was also a notable gymnast. 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 for 1998-99, her senior year. 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

Television

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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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

• American stunt performers
• Living people
• American actresses
• American female artistic gymnasts
• University of California, Los Angeles alumni
• American neuroscientists
• American women neuroscientists
• People from Hawaii
• American actresses of Japanese descent
• 21st-century American women
• UCLA Bruins women's gymnasts