Takehiro Hira (平 岳大, Hira Takehiro, born July 27, 1974) is a Japanese theatre, film, and television actor. Hira was born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, to actors Mikijirō Hira and Yoshiko Sakuma. He was raised in Japan until he was 15 years old. He went to high school at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, and then attended Brown University. He made his theatrical debut in 2002 with Rokumeikan, which was written by Yukio Mishima. He worked closely with his father, Mikijirō Hira, who was also a Japanese actor. Takehiro played the role of Iago in the production of Othello with his father playing Othello. He received major recognition when he played the last shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, in the NHK taiga drama Atsuhime. He has appeared in several films of Takashi Miike, including Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Ace Attorney, and Aku no Kyoten. He plays Natsuka Masaie in the big-budget film Nobou's Castle. He played the role of the Player Queen in the English stage production of Hamlet in 2005, in which the title role was played by Michael Maloney. This three-month tour was received well at many places in the UK. Hira played the lead role in the 2019 British TV series Giri/Haji. He has also had notable parts in the American films Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020) and Snake Eyes (2021) and a minor role in Gran Turismo. In 2024, Hira starred in FX's adaptation of Shōgun. Description above from the Wikipedia article Takehiro Hira, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. 히라 타케히로(1974년생, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 렌탈 패밀리: 가족을 빌려드립니다, 스네이크 아이즈: 지.아이.조, 로스트 걸 & 러브 호텔이 있으며, 그 외에도 캡틴 아메리카: 브레이브 뉴 월드, '모나크: 레거시 오브 몬스터즈' - Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, 쇼군, 유류수사, 절대영도, 그란 투리스모, 99.9 ~형사 전문 변호사~, Der Schwarm, 야스케, 기리 / 하지, 고우 ~공주들의 전국~, 사신 군 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. 특히 2026년에는 Anima에도 참여해서 활동중이다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2027년 과로사에 출연했다. 2026년 Anima에서 Paul 역을 맡았다. 2025년 렌탈 패밀리: 가족을 빌려드립니다에서 Shinji Tada 역을 맡았다.