9 Great Mark Dacascos Movies Lost In Time - Most Underrated Martial Artist Actor In Hollywood!

Mark Dacascos is living proof of the truth of Paolo Coelho's quote, “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.“ Walking on the streets of Chinatown in San Fransisco, he was noticed by the assistant director to Wayne Wang and was cast in a small role in the film Dim Sum. Though the scenes did not make it into the final cut, Mark Dacascos was introduced into Hollywood, and his skills as an all-American martial artist were appreciated by many directors in the later years. As a child whose parents were both martial arts trainers, he started training from a very early age and won several tournaments, including the European and Italian Kung Fu and Karate Championships, both in 1982. Dacascos likes to call himself 'a typical Hawaiian local boy' but is way more international than many of us. He's essentially a man of the world, hailing from Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Spanish and Irish ancestries. At a time when martial arts were synonymous with Asian characters, we had an Ame