Sanoe Lake

Sanoe Lake is an American actress, model and surfer who was born and raised on Kauai, Hawaii, of Hawaiian, Japanese and English descent. She was discovered by a manager on the beach of Oahu's North Shore at 15 and at 16 was the face used to launch the Roxy brand, a campaign credited with broadening the representation of female surfers beyond competitive surfing. She was contracted to surf for Billabong Girls from 2003 to 2013, wrote the 2005 book Surfer Girl, A Guide To The Surfing Life, and is best known as an actress for her role in the 2002 film Blue Crush, for which she shared an MTV Movie Award nomination for best on-screen team. In 2016 she and her husband opened the restaurant Tropicali in Big Bear Lake, California.