Akemi Look is an American actor of Japanese and Chinese descent, film producer, and screenwriter based in Los Angeles.

Educated at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, and The Alvin Ailey School of Dance, she brings her experience in movement, somatic healing, and grassroots community organizing into her acting and storytelling work.  Prior to acting, Akemi represented the United States as a member of the USA National Team in Rhythmic Gymnastics, competing at the 2002 World Championships and International competitions around the world.

She made her television debut on HBO’s How To Make It In America and her feature film debut as the lead in The Man From Earth: Holocene, alongside co-stars Michael Dorn and Vanessa Williams. She also appeared in Walt Disney Studio’s A Wrinkle In Time.  Most recently, she is the face of KITSUNE, a lead playable character in the globally popular video game franchise Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

Her indie film work has been an official selection at numerous Oscar-Qualifying film festivals including Montreal World Film Festival, Slamdance, Hollyshorts, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Urban World, and more. She has starred in award-winning indie shorts: Seppuku, Woman In Fragments, (winner of the Grand Jury Prize at China Short Film Academy Awards, and the Air Canada Short Film Award at Reel Asian Film Festival), and Carnal Orient.  She has also starred in music videos (Miike Snow, Animal Collective, Little Dragon) and commercials (Sprint, Jeep, Toyota, Target).

Her producing credits include Moon Manor, an LGBTQ indie feature film distributed by Good Deed Entertainment and sold to Showtime, Subliminal, a music video for Grammy-winning artist HOLLIS, and Roots That Reach Towards the Sky, a short film that won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Award. 

Akemi has not only been a fierce advocate of Asian American stories, she has also organized rallies, self-defense classes, and healing gatherings for Asian femmes in the wake of anti-Asian violence.

Additionally, Akemi has appeared on ABC's 20/20 speaking out against sexual abuse as a Larry Nassar survivor. She has shared her story and vision for a future that empowers survivors at art and activism events such as WE RISE, INTO ACTION, and THE COSMOS.

Through all avenues of her work, Akemi is working toward a future without rape culture and violence, where Asian American femme and queer communities are embraced as their full selves. She believes the stories we tell determine and shape the future we live in.