Claude Maki is a Japanese surfing and flight champion, actor and hip hop singer, under the stage name A.K.T.I.O.N., from Akasaka, Tokyo. He is the eldest son of actor and singer Mike Maki and Bibari Maeda , a Japanese-American actress.
After much work in theatre, he made his television acting debut in 1987 with the period drama series 'Takeda Shingen'. The same year he made also his movie debut in 'Soul Music Lovers Only'. In 1989, he was named Best Newcomer at the Japanese Academy Awards for his role in the film Buddies. In 1991 he portrayed the deaf-mute surfer Shigeru in Takeshi Kitano's third film 'A Scene at the Sea'. He starred in Junji Sakamoto's 'Falling Angels' in 1997, followed by four films in 1998 including Golden Wolf, Resurrection, and Beat. Edit Biography