Akie Kotabe

Akie Kotabe is an actor whose screen work spans film and television. Born in Lansing, Michigan, and raised in Austin, Texas, he became interested in acting at 20, when he auditioned for a student film while studying computer science at the University of Texas. After a year of theater work in Japan, he relocated to Los Angeles in 2005 and soon booked the main role in a national Cingular Wireless commercial directed by Errol Morris. His film credits include a lead opposite Salma Hayek in Everly, Meyers in the spy film The November Man, and an appearance in Kenneth Branagh's thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. On television he played Dr. Ji Dae Sun on Humans and Akira Takahashi on Mad Men, voiced regular characters for the animated series Boyster and Go Jetters, and appeared in CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.