Akemi Look is an American actor of Japanese and Chinese descent, producer, and writer based in Los Angeles. Educated at the the Gallatin School at NYU, 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.

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 operator in the 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.

Her producing credits include Moon Manor, an LGBTQ indie feature distributed by Good Deed Entertainment, Subliminal, a music video for Grammy-winning artist, Hollis Wong Wear, and Invasive, a short film that won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Award.  Prior to acting, Akemi competed as a member of the USA Rhythmic Gymnastics National Team.

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

Additionally has appeared on ABC's 20/20 speaking out against sexual abuse as a 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 the Asian community is embraced as their full selves. She believes the stories we tell determine the future we live in.