Arden Cho
Arden Cho is an actor, born 1985.
Before Teen Wolf, Arden Cho's credits read like a survey of whatever was available: a creature feature about oversized reptiles in 2011, a high school thriller in 2012, a Southern crime comedy the same year. She was modelling and building a YouTube following at the same time, which in the early 2010s was still treated as a separate career rather than a route into one.
MTV cast her as Kira Yukimura in 2013 and kept her through 2016. Three seasons on a show with that kind of devoted audience does something a dozen small film parts cannot: it puts an actor inside a fandom rather than merely on its call sheet. Cho left with a following that came with her.
Netflix has been the main employer since. She led the legal drama Partner Track in 2022 and appeared in the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender in 2024. The most consequential job so far, though, is animated. She has the lead speaking role of Rumi in KPop Demon Hunters, the 2025 Sony Pictures Animation feature, a part where the dialogue is hers and the singing is not, which is a strange and specific discipline: you build the character entirely out of timing and breath while somebody else gets the choruses. It has done more for her visibility than a decade of on-camera work, and it is the rare case of an actor becoming better known by voice than by face.
Movies (6)
TV (4)
Where to start with Arden Cho
Teen Wolf is the sensible start, specifically from 2013 onward, since Kira arrives after the show has worked out what it is and Cho gets to play someone learning the rules alongside the audience. It is teen supernatural drama with all of that genre's habits, so calibrate accordingly.
Then jump to KPop Demon Hunters, the best thing on this list and the clearest showcase, because an animated lead leaves nowhere to hide: every choice has to land in the voice.
After that the pickings thin honestly. The Baytown Outlaws is a loud, cheerfully stupid crime picture with a good cast around her. Freakish takes its horror premise more seriously than the budget allows, which is either endearing or annoying depending on your mood. The Honor List gives her the title role in a modest teen drama. Mega Python vs. Gatoroid is exactly what its title promises, and worth an evening only if that promise appeals to you.