Anna Sawai

Place of Birth: Wellington, New Zealand

Date of Birth: June 11, 1992

Ethnicity: Japanese

Anna Sawai (アンナ・サワイ) is a New Zealand-Japanese actress, singer, and dancer. She is known for her roles in the films Ninja Assassin and F9, and television’s Annie (2004), Colors (2018), Giri/Haji, Pachinko, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Shogun (2024). She was a member of Japanese girl group Faky.

Anna was born in Wellington, to Japanese parents. Her father worked for an electronics company, and her mother was a piano teacher. Anna was initially raised in New Zealand, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, and moved to Yokohama, Japan at age ten because of her father’s work. Her sister, Reina, is a ballet dancer and coryphée. Anna speaks fluent Japanese.