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Patrick Gallagher
is currently starring as Coach Ken Tanaka on Fox’s hit series Glee. Gallagher also most recently played one of Erik’s main vampires, Chow, on HBO’s hit series True Blood. (Heard of it?) Gallagher was also Atilla the Hun in both 2009 & 2006 installments of Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum AND Grimes in BSG’s March 18, 2005 episode, “Colonial Day”.
Seriously - Glee, True Blood, and Battlestar Galactica? ROCK ON!
Glee returns April 13, 2010 See full episodes here. 
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Gallagher (at right) as Chow on True Blood. 
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Gallagher was born on February 21, 1968 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Though his name relays no Asian roots, I suspect he is of part Asian descent. Some research narrows my guess to either Chinese or Filipino or both (10% and 2% population in BC per Wiki.) More on Patrick Gallagher at IMDB.
UPDATE! (as of December 30, 2009)
Got an email from the man himself! Woot! Patrick Gallagher confirmed he is of Chinese and Irish-American descent. (Note: No primary source had confirmed this information at the time of my original September 2009 post. Though Wiki has edited its post, it does not have a reference. Vancouver Sun quotes Gallagher with this info, Nov 21, 2009)
Stay tuned for more UPDATES. Thanks for the email Patrick Gallagher!
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Other Sources: Entertainment Weekly
