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Zachary Laoutides (born December 13, 1986) is an American film actor and writer based in Chicago, Illinois. He was nominated as Best Actor and Best Screenplay writer at the Bel Air Film Festival in 2014 for his work in Adios Vaya Con Dios. He was also the finalist out of Chicago for Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment nationwide talent search for new actors. He is the co-founder of Ave Fenix Pictures, an independent and international film company based in Chicago, Los Angeles and Mexico.

Biography
Laoutides was born in 1986 in Chicago where he studied media and journalism. He spent his early years working in community outreach and introducing the performing arts to youth at risk. He resides in Chicago and is still active in community outreach working with Mónica Esmeralda León.

Career
Laoutides debuted in Adios Vaya Con Dios, the film was released worldwide by Indican Pictures on January 19, 2016. Laoutides starred in the film and wrote the screenplay while living in an urban Latino neighborhood, about a half white and half Mexican gang member trying to leave the barrio. Adios Vaya Con Dios was the first movie cinematically to use real gangs and streets artists. Laoutides was nominated as Best Actor and Best Screenplay writer at the Bel Air Film Festival where Adios Vaya Con Dios earned an Official Selection and Runner-up for Best Audience Feature Film.

Laoutides was a musician on the Adios Vaya Con Dios soundtrack, composing and producing several songs. The movie was first to integrate a British and Mexican rock soundtrack over a Latino urbanized film.

In 2014 Laoutides co-founded Ave Fenix Pictures with Mónica Esmeralda León. Ave Fenix Pictures is the first Latino film studio in Chicago.

Laoutides wrote and starred in When my Eyes go Dark an official selection at Film Invasion Los Angeles 2016 Laoutides composed and produced several tracks for the movie's soundtrack.