Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is no more. Fans will remember him for his role in the Mortal Kombat franchise. The 75-year-old actor died on December 4 in Santa Barbara, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He suffered a stroke and was in a critical condition.Cary was married to Sally Phillips till their divorce in 2014. The couple had three children. He had two daughters, Cana and Brynee, and a son, Calen. Cary and Sally lived in Kauai. He also had two grandkids, Thea and River Clayton.Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa had a long history with Mortal Kombat. He first appeared in the 1995 film and then in the 1997 follow-up. He even appeared as a guest star in the TV series. He also inspired his character in the video game. Speaking about that, he once said:“It was the perfect timing in that Mortal Kombat as a video game, at the time we did the film, was on number four or five and that the impact of the film certainly had to do with the build of the video games.”Reflecting on his childhood and upbringing, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa said in a 2010 interview:“I was born in Tokyo and began training in Kendo when I was in junior high school. Then when I was five we moved to Fort Bragg, NC; and that’s when I got my first real lesson in how to use the martial arts. Being Japanese and living in the south during the ’50s was pretty tough.”Looking back at an old interview with Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaIn an interview with Red Carpet News TV in 2019, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa said that much of life is about timing. Speaking about Mortal Kombat, he said the impact of it had a lot to do with the video game. Even though there were other games like Mario Brothers and Double Dragon at the time, Mortal Kombat “struck a nerve.” He credited the film's success to filmmaker Paul Anderson. Tagawa said:“And he was the first one in martial art history to apply such music, really upbeat, you know, driving metal kind of music. You couldn’t sit still when you heard the music and it matched the action so well, that I think it just became like an anthem.”Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa went on to say:“And to me because there were so many fans, it’s as if kids will be playing every day like monks, you know, in their own little temples and all of a sudden, we gave them a church to come to, the Mortal Kombat church.”The actor said he did not grow up in an era of abundant video games. The time he gave the interview was also when Mortal Kombat 11 was set to be released. He said he still felt a familial feeling when he saw the people and the fans.Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa said he was excited for the millennial generation, as they felt there was a lot of potential for them. Just like a teacher, he was excited to share knowledge and ways of thinking with them.Also Read: Who was Tony Germano? Netflix and Disney actor loses his life in tragic accident at 55