Evan Mock

Evan Mock is an American model, actor and skateboarder, born in Waimea Bay on Oahu in Hawaii to a Filipino mother and an American father who is a surfboard fin maker. He was homeschooled, grew up aspiring to be a professional surfer or skater, and relocated to California at the age of 18 to skateboard professionally. He rose to prominence after the singer Frank Ocean posted a video of him skating. He has modeled in fashion shows for Louis Vuitton and 1017 Alyx 9SM, launched the clothing line Sorry in Advance in 2019 and a collection with the clothing company RVCA in June 2021, and starred as Akeno Aki Menzies in the HBO Max series Gossip Girl, his first acting role, which premiered in July 2021 and ran for two seasons.