Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (born September 27, 1950 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese American actor.
In addition to his extensive film work, he has appeared on television in Star Trek: The Next Generation – “Encounter at Farpoint” (1987), Thunder in Paradise (1995), Nash Bridges (1996), and Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003).
His breakthrough as an actor came when he was cast as Chang in The Last Emperor (1987). In 1989 he posed as an undercover agent of the Hong Kong Narcotics Board in the James Bond film Licence to Kill.
Many will remember him in the film Mortal Kombat (1995) as the shape-shifting sorcerer Shang Tsung, and as the deadly pirate leader Kabai Singh in The Phantom (1996).