Writing
Zachary Laoutides
Place of birth
Chicago, IL
Known for
Writing
Credits
6 titles
Zachary Laoutides is an American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker from Chicago. In 2008, he was selected as the finalist of Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment nationwide talent search for emerging actors. In 2014, Laoutides and Mónica Esmeralda León founded Ave Fenix Pictures, described as the first Latino film studio in Chicago and the Midwest. Together they developed “La Raza filmmaking,” a cinematic approach combining professional performers with non-actors to create heightened realism. Laoutides wrote and starred in Adios Vaya Con Dios, an Official Selection of the 2014 Bel Air Film Festival, and later wrote and appeared in the supernatural horror film Arise from Darkness. His performa…
Known for
8.1Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
Prison Break
2005
NRAs his restaurant crumbles and his wife battles cancer, an Italian American owner's fate collides with a driven Middle Eastern immigrant chasing the American Dream and his legacy.
Where Sweet Dreams Die
2026
1.0Jules and Louis, hustlers and jazz musicians struggle to create a hit when a black-Hispanic escort named Ruby interrupts their lives distracting their music and causing Louis to fight his friend's debts away.
Black Ruby
2019
3.7Based on the early events of psychic Lazaro Ruben Torres, clinically declared dead on five separate occasions. Lazaro, a neighborhood medium, inherits psychic abilities after a tragedy visits him and his daughter, leaving her dead. Trying to reconnect with his daughter, Lazaro is determined to deepen his gift, in the process discovering the man who killed her.
Arise from Darkness
2017
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
1.0Jules and Louis, hustlers and jazz musicians struggle to create a hit when a black-Hispanic escort named Ruby interrupts their lives distracting their music and causing Louis to fight his friend's debts away.
Black Ruby
2019
3.7Based on the early events of psychic Lazaro Ruben Torres, clinically declared dead on five separate occasions. Lazaro, a neighborhood medium, inherits psychic abilities after a tragedy visits him and his daughter, leaving her dead. Trying to reconnect with his daughter, Lazaro is determined to deepen his gift, in the process discovering the man who killed her.
Arise from Darkness
2017
Series credits
Behind the camera
NRAs his restaurant crumbles and his wife battles cancer, an Italian American owner's fate collides with a driven Middle Eastern immigrant chasing the American Dream and his legacy.
Where Sweet Dreams Die
2026
3.7Based on the early events of psychic Lazaro Ruben Torres, clinically declared dead on five separate occasions. Lazaro, a neighborhood medium, inherits psychic abilities after a tragedy visits him and his daughter, leaving her dead. Trying to reconnect with his daughter, Lazaro is determined to deepen his gift, in the process discovering the man who killed her.
Arise from Darkness
2017