Anna Akana

Filmmaker

Anna Akana started her YouTube channel in 2011, jumpstarting her career as an actress, producer, filmmaker, musician and writer. Anna produces shorts, films, sketches and series on and off her YouTube channel, which often feature semi-autobiographical comedic & informative stories. The channel now boasts a following of over 2.7 million.

As a screen actress, Akana can be seen in recurring roles on Freeform’s “The Fosters” and ‘Stitchers’ and Comedy Central’s “Broken People,” as well as in the films “Kids vs. Monsters,” “Hello, My Name is Doris” and “Ant Man.” Anna also starred alongside Bella Thorne and Halston Sage in Awesomeness Film’s thriller “You Get Me,” and continues to recur in the Comedy Central series “Corporate” and on the ABC drama series ‘A Million Little Things’ as the musically gifted ‘Dakota’.

Anna concluded her North American comedy tour “Show and Tell,” in 2017 while also working on several digital and long form projects currently in development. Her second digital series “Miss 2059,” wrapped season 2 in 2017 and her series “Youth & Consequences” in which Anna stars and Produces alongside The Mark Gordon Company premiered on Youtube Red in 2017.  In early 2019 Anna completed work on the Netflix Feature ‘Let It Snow’ based on the book ‘Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances’ as well as the Blumhouse Produced Feature ‘My Valentine’. Also in 2019 Anna’s Feature ‘Go Back To China’, where she plays the lead role of ‘Sasha Li’, premiered at SXSW Film Festival. Next up Anna will appear in the highly anticipated series ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ for Netflix based on the Mark Millar Graphic Novel.

On the literary front, Anna signed a book deal with Random House/Ballantine, which released her first book in June 2017 “So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters To My Little Sister”. The novel is now in development with Warner Bros. and HBO Max for series adaptation with Diablo Cody and Jim Parsons set to Produce. Anna also has half hour Comedy Series ‘The New Now’ set up with Warner Horizon and Producer Jonathan Stern.

Beyond acting and producing, Akana has also created the clothing company Ghost & Stars, and released her first album in August of 2019.