Trivia

In an interview with TV Guide's Michael Ausiello, he said that as of November 2006, he still works one or two days a week as a CGI artist for George Lucas's special effects company Industrial Light & Magic (at which Oka worked on the effects for such films as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), War of the Worlds (2005), the three most recent Star Wars movies, and The Perfect Storm (2000)). He also still drives his old car, a 2000 Honda Accord.

He has a 180-plus IQ.

One of his hobbies is Kendo (Japanese sword fighting).

Graduated in 1997 from Brown University with degrees in mathematics and computer science and a minor in theatre arts.

Graduated from Harvard-Westlake School (1992).

When he was 12, he was on the cover of the August 31, 1987 issue of Time magazine titled "Those Asian-American Whiz Kids".

At age six, he moved to Los Angeles, California, USA, where he still resides.

Name is pronounced as "mah-see".

His character on Heroes (2006), Hiro, is Tyra Banks's favorite character on her favorite show.

Arrived in Singapore to promote Season 2 of Heroes (2006), as part of the World Tour [31 August 2007]. (August 2007)

Both Greg Grunberg and Masi Oka were in 2002's "Austin Powers in Goldmember" and never shared any scenes together. That would change in 2006 when they both went on to star in their respective roles in "Heroes".