Akimoto Sayaka is a Japanese actress. She is a former member of AKB48's Team K, as well as the unit DiVA, until her graduation in 2013. She is a former captain of Team K. She was born to a Japanese father and a Filipina mother.

As an actress, Akimoto has appeared in both Japanese and American productions and made her Hollywood debut in "Sniper: Assassin's End" (2020). She also provides the Japanese dub for Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In 2012, she ran the Tokyo Marathon for the second year in a row and donated the money to the Philippines.

On June 26, 2014, Akimoto was appointed as the Goodwill Philippine Tourism Ambassador in order to promote the Philippines as a tourist destination in Japan. She was also assigned as a narrator in the collaboration drama of PTV-4 and Nippon TV entitled "Halo Halo House-Jose's Nippon Diary".

She had a recurring role as Bikuu in Garo, which led to a solo movie spin-off in 2015. She sang the theme song of the movie entitled "Sengetsu ~Hikari to Yami no Soba de~".

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