Minako Jean McMillin (born October 31, 1989), known professionally as Mina McMillin, is an American actress who has provided voices for English dubbed anime and video games. Some of her voice roles include Emily in Until Dawn, Sasha Braus in Attack on Titan, Silica / Keiko Ayano in Sword Art Online, and Gaige in Borderlands 2. On screen, she is best known for her upcoming role of Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana in the 2016 superhero film Suicide Squad.

 early life McMillin was born and raised in San Francisco, California. Her mother works in finance and her father is an oral surgeon. She has one older brother. She is of Japanese descent on her mother's side and Irish, Scottish, and German on her father's. In 2011, McMillin graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology and Neurobiology emphasis.

 career In April of 2010, McMillin submitted a video audition to an open casting call for the film Project X. After several more auditions, McMillin, who had no prior interest in pursuing acting as a career, was cast as JB's Girl. She then hired an agent and began auditioning for more projects.

After graduating from college, McMillin moved to Los Angeles, where she quickly found work as a voice actress. Her first credited roles were minor roles in the English language version of Squid Girl, released in the US in 2011. On why she wanted to do voiceover work, she has said: "Because I was still new to Hollywood and wanted to work as much as I could and I sound like a Muppet." She has primarily lent her voice to anime series dubbed by Bang! Zoom Entertainment and Funimation but has also worked on North American-produced video games such as Until Dawn and Borderlands 2.

McMillin also continues to work on live action projects. She has guest starred on television shows such as The Fosters, Teen Wolf, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine and appears in a recurring role on Shameless. She has also collaborated on web series and shorts with YouTubers, including Wong Fu Productions, Justin Chon, and RocketJump, as well as produced and starred in her own web shorts, Kiko in America and Gerardo's. Her involvement in online media has lead to work in film; in 2015, she appeared in Man Up and Everything Before Us, independent feature films by Chon and Wong Fu, respectively.

In March 2015, McMillin was announced as joining the cast of the upcoming DC Comics film Suicide Squad. She was later revealed to be playing Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana. Suicide Squad marks McMillin's first large studio film role.