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Date of Birth
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10-February-1974
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Place of Birth
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Honolulu
(United States of America, Honolulu County, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, Oahu, Area code 808)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Tanaoi Reed, Toa, Gladiator Toa, Tanaoi Reed
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Profession
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Actor, Stunt Performer
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Tanoai Reed is a Hollywood stunt man.
Reed was born in Honolulu, Hawaii of Samoan and Norwegian, Swedish and Irish descent. He is the cousin and stand-in double of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
He is featured in the video "Pump It" by The Black Eyed Peas, playing one of the villains Fergie fights. Reed appears in the 2008 relaunch of American Gladiators as the gladiator Toa. In the first 2008 episode of Gladiators, Toa delivered an abbreviated version of Ka Mate, a New Zealand Maori haka before beginning his defense of the top of the pyramid.
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