Anna Akana
Anna Akana was born in United States of America, United States on August 18th, 1989 and is the YouTube Star. At the age of 34, Anna Akana biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Anna Kay Akana (born August 18, 1989) is an American actress, filmmaker, singer, musician, author, and comedian.
She is known for her YouTube channel, which has over 2.5 million subscribers and over 226 million video views.
Early and personal life
Akana's father was an officer in the United States Marine Corps, including during her childhood. Her father moved every few years to a new state or country. In a 2020 interview, she said that she loved Sailor Moon, Inuyasha and Ranma ½, expressing her surprise that her dad would make them watch Tenchi Muyo! with him because of its "perverted" nature. Her father stated that he loved shows like The Powerpuff Girls, animation in general, and anime, the latter especially because he spent "four years growing up in Japan".
On Valentine's Day 2007, Akana's 13-year-old younger sister, Kristina, died by suicide. Several months after her sister's death, Akana watched Margaret Cho perform on a Comedy Central special and laughed for the first time since the suicide. She began to see laughter as a means of trying to move on with her life and decided to seriously pursue comedy. Akana has been vocal about her sister's suicide and is a strong advocate for suicide prevention. In 2013, Akana uploaded a YouTube video, "please don't kill yourself", in which she explains how it felt for her to have a family member die by suicide. In that same year, she released a book Surviving Suicide which contains her journal entries from the two years after her sister's death.
In October 2018, she came out as bisexual. In 2019, she stated in a post to her Instagram that she had undergone an abortion when she was 20 and felt it was one of the best decisions she'd ever made. She mentioned this fact in one of her books and later created a dramatized movie uploaded on YouTube, which presented her story.
Career
Akana first began performing comedy at age 19, but then moved to YouTube videos in 2011 after being plagued by panic attacks and anxiety before going on stage. She then returned to the stage to perform stand-up comedy.
Cat Benatar, a fellow comedian and writer, formed a comedy music pair in 2014 with fellow comedian and writer Megan Rosati. (The duo's name is a play on the pop singer Pat Benatar's name.)
Akana produces both comedy and documentary YouTube videos. Akana was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels in 2014, ranked at #72. Akana decided to concentrate more on her acting skills as a producer and made one short film a month. Though she did not achieve her target of twelve short films, she did make six short films that were well received by her YouTube audience. Akana appeared in all of her short films and has appeared in several other short films, and she has since began to make short films.
Miss Earth, one of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's production company, New Form Digital, partially funded one of her short films. It was part of the 2014 Incubator, a project that would display and produce original stories by YouTube Creators and filmmakers. Miss Earth was later developed into a web series, Miss 2059, and was released on Verizon's go90 app in June 2016, with a second season debuting in late 2017.
Youth & Consequences, Jason Ubaldi's original comedy-drama web television series, was produced by Akana and premiered on YouTube Red in March 2018. She is also the host of Crash Course Business: Entrepreneurship, which launches in August 2019.
In a 30 minute YouTube documentary made by SoulPancake in collaboration with Funny or Die, wherein a variety of comedians talk about mental health. Laughing Matters was released on October 10, 2019.
Akana appeared in the television series Awkward in 2011. She appeared in Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night" music video last year as an extra.
She appeared in the films Ant-Man and Kids vs Monsters in 2015.
Akana appeared in Snapper Hero, a scripted video series distributed on Snapchat. AT&T sponsored the series.
In 2016, Akana appeared alongside Sally Field in the indie comedy film Hello, My Name Is Doris, written by Michael Showalter. She appeared in a short Star Wars fan film Hoshino as well as the comedy film Dirty 30 in the same year.
She appears on the Comedy Central show Corporate as a regular participant.
Gloria Sato appears in Big City Greens and Sasha Waybright in Amphibia, as well as supporting roles as Gloria Sato and Sasha Waybright.
She revealed on Ryan Higa's Off the Pill podcast in 2019 that she was a part of Netflix's Legacy.
Akana also hosts the podcast Explain Things to Me with fellow comedian Brad Gage, where the two interview experts in various fields of expertise.
Akana was announced in 2021 as a co-star in Emma Roberts' romantic comedy About Fate.