Age: 29
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Mackenyu (新田 真剣佑, born November 16, 1996) is a Japanese actor born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of actor and martial artist Sonny Chiba. He attended Beverly Hills High School in their Advanced Placement Program and appeared in a few films and TV shows while growing up. As a young child, Mackenyu had many interests including horseback riding, Yabusame, Kyokushin Karate (he was placed third at the US Kyokushin Karate Nationals), gymnastics, water polo, and wrestling (for which he became the school representative). He was also into music, playing piano since he was 10 years old, and later participated in the brass band of his high school in Beverly Hills, playing saxophone, and flute. At the age of 15, Mackenyu watched a movie of Haruma Miura and got inspired to pursue acting professionally in Japan. He held on to the dream of co-starring with the actor once he established his career, which then came true in the movie adaptation of Gunjō Senki (2021). Mackenyu landed his first feature film lead role in Take a Chance (2015) and was featured in the acclaimed short movie Tadaima (2015) for which he won a best supporting actor award at the Asians of Films festival. He moved to Japan later in the same year. His fame grew in Japan after landing the role of Eiji Tomari in Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future (2015). In 2016, he made his stage debut in the Japanese musical Boys Over Flower (Hana Yori Dango: The Musical), which prepared him for his future major roles in the stage-musicals ZEROTOPIA (2018) and Hoshi no Daichi ni Furu Namida (2020). He had a prominent role in the two part feature film Chihayafuru Part I & II (2016) which made him a big name in Japan. Mackenyu started to expand his acting opportunities in Hollywood with a supporting role in the film Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018). In 2021, he starred as the final villain, Yukishiro Enishi, in the Rurouni Kenshin series. He portrayed Scar in the live-action sequel of Fullmetal Alchemist (2022). He gained global popularity when he landed the role of Roronoa Zoro in the live-action series adaptation of One Piece (2023). Drawing on his martial arts background, Mackenyu performs his own stunts and is highly skilled in sword fighting.
After the events of Glass, Joseph, Mrs. Price, and Casey Cooke were being abducted by an 'acolyte' of Mr. Glass, Michael Burrows. Mrs. Price was unaware of him as her son wanted to keep it a secret. He explained that all of the events the happened during Glass, Split and Unbreakable were an experiment conducted by Mr. Glass. Mr. Glass wanted to understand whether a superhuman has his or her powers being genetic or learned. So, after the Eastrail 177 accident, which was an independent variable, the two dependent variables: David Dunn and Kevin Wendell Crumb were being researched on by him. David's powers were genetic whereas Kevin's was learned. However, this wasn't the purpose of the experiment. Mr. Glass actually wanted to reveal to the whole world that superpowers can happen by chance, whether it was built into DNA or through a certain event. His second agenda was to find humans who are overbearing and over-emotional: teenagers with super abilities. Once the video sent on the Internet by the three of them were released, Michael was actually notified that he needed to recruit superhumans as the organization: the Agency wanted a world where there is no such thing as superhumans wanted to hunt and kill them. Michael, Joseph, Mrs. Price, and Casey have to find around America a few individuals with this gift to stop the Agency.
