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==Personal life and death== Her first marriage, to television director Frederick Winfield "Wynn" Opie in 1958, ended in divorce in 1967.<ref name="wynn"/><ref name="post"/> The couple had one son, Michael H. Opie, born in 1964.<ref name="post"/> She married Randall Firevod Hood in 1968, and he adopted her son, changing the boy’s name to Michael Randall Hood (February 11, 1964 – August 27, 2018).<ref name="afp">{{cite news| url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5go1cOxEboLMN38e03MYjlMjJ9y4A| title=Miyoshi Umeki, first Asian to win an Oscar, dies| website=[[Agence France-Presse]]| date=September 6, 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520115542/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5go1cOxEboLMN38e03MYjlMjJ9y4A| archive-date=May 20, 2011}}</ref> The couple operated a Los Angeles–based business renting editing equipment to film studios and university film programs.<ref name="post"/> Randall Hood died in 1976.<ref name="usatoday"/> Her son, Michael Hood, was a police sergeant.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foxfh.net/tribute/details/5218/Sgt-Michael-Hood/obituary.html|publisher=Fox Funeral Home|title=Sgt. Michael Randall Hood obituary|access-date=November 12, 2023}}</ref> According to Umeki's son (who died 11 years after his mother),<ref>[https://foxfh.net/tribute/details/5218/Sgt-Michael-Hood/obituary.html Obituary: Michael Randall Hood], foxfh.net. Accessed November 13, 2023.</ref> Umeki lived in [[Sherman Oaks, California]] for a number of years, then moved to [[Licking, Missouri]] to be near her son and his family, which included three grandchildren. Known as Miyoshi Hood, she died there on August 28, 2007, aged 78, from cancer.<ref name=iht>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/arts/06umeki.html| title=Miyoshi Umeki, 78, Actress Who Won an Oscar in '57, Dies| last=Lavietes| first=Stuart| date=September 6, 2007| page=B7| work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
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