Future Asian & Pacific History Month: Jason Momoa's Heroic Persona

Fuse is celebrating Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month by looking at a variety of rising forces who are creating Future Asian and Pacific History before our eyes. Today it's Jason Momoa, actor, director, writer, father and Khal Drogo on Game of Thrones.

The 37-year-old was born Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa in Honolulu and grew up with his mother in Norwalk, "a very white farm town in Iowa." He spent summers in his birthplace with his father, a native Hawaiian, or Kānaka Maoli. The year he turned 20, Momoa became Hawaii's Model of the Year and landed a role that would last through Baywatch's final two seasons, when it was rebranded Baywatch Hawaii. He went on to do the first and only season of the Hawaii-set North Shore and the majority of Stargate Atlantis' five-year run.