Grant Masaru Imahara was born on October 23, 1970, and died July 13, 2020, in Los Angeles, California, the U.S from a brain condition called brain aneurysm. Imahara was born in Los Angeles, California, the US by a Japanese American family. Although Imahara was not born in Japan, he is Japanese by relation, but American by birth.
He lived most of his life in the US. This is why there is a controversy about where he hails from. His Japanese name is 今原 真申. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Southern California and graduated with a degree in 1993. After graduation, he secured a job as an engineer for Lucasfilm’s THX division later moved to the company’s visual effects division.