Name
Kaiwi Lyman
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1983-05-13 (43 years old)
Place of Birth
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Biography
Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he played water polo, surfed, paddled outrigger canoes, practiced Brazilian jiu jitsu, and sailed but nothing excited him more than being on stage. Kaiwi has experience as a close up magician and has won and placed in several magic competitions. He was fortunate to have four years of intense theater arts training in high school at the Mid-Pacific Institute School of the Arts. After high school Kaiwi moved to California in 2002 to pursue his passion in the entertainment business. He attended Santa Monica College and, to fulfill an assignment, in the first few weeks of class, he delivered a monologue from The Crucible. The teacher realized his experience was beyond an Acting 101 class and had him then deliver the monologue to the drama department head. She immediately recognized his talent and suggested he audition for Julliard School. Kaiwi was determined, however, to get a screen role and it wasn't long before he got his first break when, in 2003, Kaiwi played the lead role of Colin in the horror film, Trespassers. Since then he has taken on a variety of different projects. His work displays his range of roles, from comedic to dramatic, in numerous films, TV shows, webisodes and commercials.
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- 2021 Copshop as Officer Barnes
- 2024 Trigger Warning as Ghost
- 2006 Trespassers as Colin
- 2012 Reel Evil as Cory
- 2013 Assassins Tale as Woody
- 2013 Dragon Day as Tibbit
- 2023 End Times as Hayden
- 2016 Traded as Jed
- 2014 Android Cop as Wescott
- 2023 The Cardboard Window as Father
- 2014 Ninja Apocalypse as Trillion
- 2011 Mega Python vs. Gatoroid as Tommy
- 2023 Sympathy for the Devil as Colleague
- 2018 They Want Dick Dickster as Brad Priest
- 2015 Circle as Bearded Man
- 2018 Minutes to Midnight as Charlie Crenna
- 2013 Gone Dark as Mike
- 2016 Zoombies as Daxton
- 2010 Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus as USS Argonaut Officer
- 2016 Ice Sharks as Michael
- 2016 The Amityville Terror as Todd
- 2016 Lost in the Pacific as Vincent
- 2017 American Violence as Jackson Shea
- 2005 Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove as Surfer #2
- 2017 Hickok as John Wesley Hardin
- 2018 Den of Thieves as 'Tony Z' Zapata
- 2012 40 Days and Nights as Baggins
- 2018 Blackmark as Timothy Daniels
- 2019 The Final Wish as Derek
- 2018 Deadtime Tales 2 as Cory - 'Asylum of the Damned' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2019 The Outsider as James Walker
- 2019 Acceleration as Jimmy
- 2010 Without Borders as 1st Avenger
- 2010 Orgy of the Damned as Man Who Shakes
- 2020 Gripped: Climbing the Killer Pillar as Brett
- 2019 The Mongolian Connection as Wade Dalton
- 2025 Clutch as Xavier
- 2025 A Matter of Choice as Michael
- Soon Empire City
- 2020 Don't Look Deeper ( 14 episodes ) as Noah
- 2014 Jane the Virgin ( 1 episode ) as Zed
- 2015 Fresh Off the Boat ( 1 episode ) as White Guy 1
- 2016 Flaked ( 1 episode ) as Scott
- 2016 Westworld ( 1 episode ) as Branding Soldier
- 2011 American Horror Story ( 4 episodes ) as Gutterball
- 2011 Kickin' It ( 1 episode ) as Snake
- 2015 Grace and Frankie ( 1 episode ) as Skipper
- 2010 Hawaii Five-0 ( 1 episode ) as Kevin Creed
- 2004 Hawaii ( 1 episode ) as Skinny Guy
- 2002 CSI: Miami ( 1 episode ) as Crypt King
- 2020 Deputy ( 1 episode ) as Deputy Tabnick
