Ren Hanami

Ren Hanami is an American stage/screen/voice actress, writer, director and singer. Hanami is a recurring Guest Star on Disney's Bunk'd, and has appeared in TV shows such as Star Trek: Picard, Silicon Valley, This is Us, Criminal Minds and GLOW. Her first feature film role was Air Force One. She also appeared in the mini-series The Storm as Meteorologist Dawn Maleuga from Honolulu, Hawaii. She is the National Chairman of the SAG-AFTRA Asian Pacific American Media Committee and was inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame in 2021.

Hanami was born as Linda Maureen Hanna in Inglewood, California to Alice Akimi Nakano of Japanese descent from Kekaha, Kauai, Hawaii and a rocket scientist James Arthur Hanna who worked on Navstar GPS the first GPS satellite. Hanna was of Scottish descent from Foxboro, Massachusetts. The Hannas are descended from Clan Hannay in the southwest of Scotland complete with a 15th-century castle called Sorbie Tower.

Stage productions

 * Land of Smiles - NGO Attorney, Achara Montri - Edinburgh Fringe Festival
 * South Pacific - with Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell - The Hollywood Bowl

Video games

 * Cyberpunk 2077 - Wakako Okada

Honors

 * 2021 - Hanami is inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame "for her trailblazing career in the entertainment industry and advocacy for Asian Pacific Islander Americans through her work as the Chair of the SAG-AFTRA Asian Pacific Media Committee."