About LENI

Leni Ito, a Japanese native raised in Tokyo and the U.S.

 

Born to Satomi a fashion stylist and Noa a Commercial Director, who named their daughter after an auteur and female director, Leni Riefenstahl. As a child growing up around film sets at Toho Studio where her father worked. She’d often encountered Godzilla in a giant pool set where she developed a vast imagination. From such an early age, acting and filmmaking were something that always surrounded her, but it wasn’t until she saw “the Goonies” where the idea stuck. She spent her early youth working in theater and numerous commercials and ads.

 

She’s appeared in major Hollywood films such as Universal Pictures’ “BATTLESHIP,” Japanese master of horror Takashi Shimizu’s “7500” (CBS) , “Oh Lucy!” which competed in the International Critics Week at 2017 Cannes Film Festival and numerous national campaigns such as Microsoft, IBM, Wendy’s, Pepsi, Cisco, Comcast, Logitech and many more.

 

Leni has just finished filming an Amazon Prime hit show “Goliath Season 4.”

Her recurring role on the anticipated series was created by Billy Bob Thornton.