Anna Akana

Anna Akana is an American comedian, actress, filmmaker and musician who began performing comedy at 19 and shifted to YouTube videos in 2011. Her channel mixes comedy and documentary shorts, and in 2014 she set out to make a short film each month, one of them, Miss Earth, drawing financing from Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's production company before it became the web series Miss 2059. She executive produced and led the comedy drama web series Youth & Consequences in 2018 and hosted Crash Course Business: Entrepreneurship. On screen she appeared in Katy Perry's Last Friday Night music video and in the series Awkward, had a recurring part as Paige in Corporate, and took roles in Hello, My Name Is Doris, Ant-Man, Dirty 30 (2016) and Blade of the 47 Ronin (2022). Her voice work includes Sasha Waybright in Amphibia and Gloria Sato in Big City Greens. She also records music, releasing the album Casualty in 2019.