Naoyuki Ikeda was born in Nagoya, Japan, to Masaru Ikeda and Miko Ikeda. After graduating Tsuru University, he went to Florida to work at the Japan Pavilion in EPCOT center in Walt Disney World. Then Naoyuki went back to Japan and had been a junior high and high school English teacher in Aichi and Kagoshima for about 12 years. After that, he moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to pursue his life-long dream to be a Hollywood film actor. Naoyuki Ikeda is now an actor, a producer and a writer, known for Satanicus (????)_, Hunter (2015) and The Bitch That Cried Wolf (2014) and Japan Connection: monthly English magazine.