Emi Kamito

Born in the Saga prefecture of Japan, Emi’s fascination of the English language started at a young age through American film and television. In school, she consistently placed top of her class in Japanese studies (most notably the art of Japanese calligraphy) while simultaneously improving her English skills in the hopes of travelling abroad to experience new cultures. This opportunity came during her last year of high school, when she was selected for a program that placed her in India for a year as an exchange student. Coming back from India with the determination to return overseas, she enrolled in the Osaka College of Foreign Languages, where she garnered accolades, among them placing second in a school wide English contest.

Upon graduating, Emi was once again given an opportunity to utilize her bilingual skills, this time at the Japanese Pavilion at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Her year-long work as a Merchandise Hostess at Disney World was rewarded, when she was selected to work aboard the Disney Wonder Cruise as the only Japanese speaking worker among a thousand crew members. It was working as a Japanese translator on the cruise alongside her coworkers, many of them entertainers, that her passion for acting was ignited.

Emi continued to hone her translation and interpretation skills in Japan working for clients such as Toyota and Show Space, until she set her sights on California, where she graduated Santa Monica College with a Theatre Arts diploma in 2010. She garnered a slew of acting credits upon graduating and made her move to Vancouver, Canada, in 2012 where she currently resides. It was while Emi worked and trained as an actress in 2018, that she was given the opportunity to work as a Dialect Coach on the final season of Amazon Prime’s “The Man in the High Castle”. She soon discovered that it was the perfect fit, combining her passion for acting and bridging the gap between two languages.

Having experience coaching actors of all different ages and language levels, Emi believes that there isn’t a “one size fits all” formula and favours a more personalized approach tailored to the needs of the client. As a trained actress herself, she has an understanding of the actor’s process and believes that dialect coaching aids in elevating the actor’s performance. As the call for accurate cultural representation in media rises, Emi Kamito strives to deliver to the project’s needs while allowing the actor to be their most comfortable, confident selves.