Saki Miata
- Actress
- Sound Department
- Writer
Saki Miata is a Japanese-English bilingual actress who quickly learns foreign-accented English. She has played Chinese, Taiwanese, South Korean and North Korean roles, as well as Japanese. She appears on UrbanFlix TV's "Cocaine Sisters" as Ms. Kim, a North Korean landlord in a Black neighborhood. Saki received a Bronze Award for Best Actress in May 2020 from the Los Angeles Independent Shorts Awards and one of the nominees for Best Actress in July 2020, both for her role of Liu, a Chinese woman in the thriller short "ROOM 3." Then in 2021, Saki was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the International Black and Diversity Film Festival for her role of Aki in a feature film "Hank and Jolene."
She was born and raised in Japan and moved to Michigan at the age of fifteen. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She first studied acting at Bungakuza Theatre Company in Tokyo then moved to Los Angeles to pursuit an on-camera acting career.
From 2006 through 2011, Saki anchored "JATV News" and covered various topics that would appeal to the Japanese and the Japanese American community in Southern California and Hawaii weekly. She not only anchored but also often produced some segments. On stage, Saki played a comedic role of Obachan in a musical "Letters To Eve" at the Miles Memorial Theater in Santa Monica, California in the spring and winter of 2017. Saki belonged to The Garage Theatre Company, led by award-winning director Robert Allan Ackerman. In March and April 2016, the group produced an ensemble play "Blood" written and directed by Ackerman. Saki played the role of Rei Ninomiya, the mother of the hero boy. Both "Letters To Eve" and "Blood" received rave reviews from numerous stage critics. For voice-over work,
Saki played the voice of the character Vy Le in the English dubbing of a Japanese TV animation series "The Reflection" (co-created by Stan Lee and Hiroshi Nagahama). The English version is streaming on Crunchyroll. Saki's voice can also be heard in the community news segments in "FCI News Catch" on KXLA every morning during the week. Her commercial credits include IBM, Comcast, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and JC Penny for the US, as well as Shiseido and WEN Haircare in Japan.
Saki launched her own YouTube channel called "American English AHA!" to share with the Japanese audience her method of training the mouth to be able to speak English. Saki continues to emcee as a host of corporate and community live events.
Saki is the owner of Saki LLC, a company that offers translation, interpretation, and other bilingual services. She has connected the superhero creator, late Stan Lee to the Japanese anime production companies and has co-produced "Heroman". She also connected Stan to an anime director Hiroshi Nagahama and co-produced the television anime series "The Reflection" which aired on NHK in Japan in Fall 2017. She produced the English dub version of the show.
She was born and raised in Japan and moved to Michigan at the age of fifteen. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She first studied acting at Bungakuza Theatre Company in Tokyo then moved to Los Angeles to pursuit an on-camera acting career.
From 2006 through 2011, Saki anchored "JATV News" and covered various topics that would appeal to the Japanese and the Japanese American community in Southern California and Hawaii weekly. She not only anchored but also often produced some segments. On stage, Saki played a comedic role of Obachan in a musical "Letters To Eve" at the Miles Memorial Theater in Santa Monica, California in the spring and winter of 2017. Saki belonged to The Garage Theatre Company, led by award-winning director Robert Allan Ackerman. In March and April 2016, the group produced an ensemble play "Blood" written and directed by Ackerman. Saki played the role of Rei Ninomiya, the mother of the hero boy. Both "Letters To Eve" and "Blood" received rave reviews from numerous stage critics. For voice-over work,
Saki played the voice of the character Vy Le in the English dubbing of a Japanese TV animation series "The Reflection" (co-created by Stan Lee and Hiroshi Nagahama). The English version is streaming on Crunchyroll. Saki's voice can also be heard in the community news segments in "FCI News Catch" on KXLA every morning during the week. Her commercial credits include IBM, Comcast, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and JC Penny for the US, as well as Shiseido and WEN Haircare in Japan.
Saki launched her own YouTube channel called "American English AHA!" to share with the Japanese audience her method of training the mouth to be able to speak English. Saki continues to emcee as a host of corporate and community live events.
Saki is the owner of Saki LLC, a company that offers translation, interpretation, and other bilingual services. She has connected the superhero creator, late Stan Lee to the Japanese anime production companies and has co-produced "Heroman". She also connected Stan to an anime director Hiroshi Nagahama and co-produced the television anime series "The Reflection" which aired on NHK in Japan in Fall 2017. She produced the English dub version of the show.
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