Leda

Paget Kagy is a Korean American actress, writer and content creator having starred in TV shows like CRIMINAL MINDS, SHAMELESS, BIG SHOT, UNSTABLE, and several national commercials.

She was born and raised in LA, where she spent most of her time as a kid, sketching animals, painting, and singing songs in The Lion King, on repeat (much to her parent's chagrin). But after being convinced by a family friend that artists "end up on the streets," she shifted her focus to academics and graduated valedictorian.

It wasn't long after pulling all-nighters at UC Berkeley as an engineering major that she found herself pretty miserable, until a semester abroad in Paris turned her whole trajectory around. There, she was cast in the musical "A Chorus Line" as Sheila, and it was that magical four months that reignited the creative fire in her belly from childhood.

Returning to LA, however, she quickly realized the industry wasn't the most welcoming to Asian American faces in roles with emotional depth and complexity, which prompted her to write her own project featuring prominent Asian American roles. In 2018, she produced, starred and successfully crowdfunded a romantic comedy web series "Kat Loves LA", which received such positive feedback that it led to a second season.

She's happy to see how the industry has evolved and become much more open to casting outside the convention, and she's very thankful to have had the opportunity to play more emotionally complex roles that she genuinely loves, like Leda in "A Mind Cannot Touch." Paget is currently developing several scripts, while searching for more roles that light her up.