Analū Cruze was born on March 23, 1973, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Marie Aulani Cruze, a retired baker and certified nursing assistant and Andreas Demetriou Josephides, an accountant. His mother is Hawaiian, Portuguese, English, and Scottish and his father is a Greek-Cypriot and emigrated to America via Ellis Island, as a British Subject (1955). Inspired by the Hawaii's Army Community Theatre's 1986 performance, the Diary of Anne Frank, he decided to study theatre at a young age and in 1988 enrolled in the Kaimuki High Schools Performing Arts Center (1988-1991), under the direction of Peggy Anne Siegmund.
Analū studied acting with the Kapiolani Community College (1991-1994) and the Leeward Community College (1996-1998) theatre programs. He has performed in various stage productions with the Castle High Schools Performing Arts Center and the Hawaii - Army Community Theatre. He attended method acting workshops led by actor Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa (1994) and studied television and film acting with actor and coach Cody Dorkin of Studio 24 in Sacramento, California (2014). He moved to West Hollywood, California and studied acting with Lynette McNeill in Beverly Hills, California (2016). Analū studies acting, improv, and playwriting with the Santa Monica Playhouse in Santa Monica, California under Co-Artistic Directors Evelyn Rudie and Chris DeCarlo (2022-2023).
As a younger actor, he was introduced by the former Miss Universe, Brook Lee as a talent with the ADR Model and Talent Agency, where he performed as an extra on the series One West Waikiki (1994) and interned as the cultural liaison to the Bay Watch Hawaii's writing team (Summer 2000). Analū returned back to the stage in fall of 2014 in the Folsom Lake Theatre's production of Anonymous. His first short film Morpheum showcased at the Sacrmaneto Film Festival (2015). He is best known for his role as Nic in the short film Nic (2016). The film Nic was nominated to the Central American International Film Festival in Miami, Florida where actress, director, and writer Daryl Greene Callejas won audience choice for best director Honduras (2016).
When he is not acting, Analū can be found studying as a PhD student with SUNY - University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education - Information Science Program and performing in his tenured faculty position as the Reference and Instruction Librarian with El Camino College in Torrance, California. He has published articles in both professional publications and scholarly journals. He is currently writing a play, a historical nonfiction book, and a Covid related story. Analū just released his first children's book titled, "The Legend of the Three Pu'u which is available in print and electronic form via https://www.amazon.com/author/analucruze
