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Actor

1989-04-05 · Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Female

4 series in the catalog

Kiki Sukezane (祐真 キキ, Sukezane Kiki; born April 5, 1989) is a Japanese actress from Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, working mostly in American productions.

Biography

Kiki Sukezane was born to parents both of Samurai descent, into a local family noted for its ancestry, whose surname can be traced back to swordsmiths from the 13th century; some ancestors were involved in the 1860 Sakuradamon Incident on the side of the Rōnin, and others were Ochimusha under the Taira clan. Her paternal uncle, Tomoki Sukezane (Japanese: 祐真朋樹), is a noted stylist and fashion magazine editor.

Sukezane spent a year in the United States as a foreign exchange student in South Dakota and learned English. Sukezane attended acting school in Tokyo for two years before moving to Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, in 2012 to pursue roles in Hollywood.

In her first major break she played Miko Otomo/Katana Girl in NBC's Heroes Reborn miniseries from 2015 to 2016. She followed it up with roles in Netflix's Lost in Space and Earthquake Bird, HBO's Westworld and more recently AMC's The Terror: Infamy. Sukezane lives in Los Angeles and is a lesbian.