Zachary Laoutides is an American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker from Chicago. In 2008, he was selected as a finalist in Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment nationwide talent search for emerging actors.

In 2014, Laoutides and Monica Esmeralda Leon founded Ave Fenix Pictures, which is called the first Latino film studio in Chicago and the Midwest. Together they developed "La Raza filmmaking," a cinematic approach that combines professional performers with non-professionals to create heightened realism.

Laoutides wrote the screenplay and starred in Adios Vaya Con Dios, which was included in the official program of the 2014 Bel Air Film Festival, and later wrote the screenplay and starred in the supernatural horror film Arise from Darkness. His acting work has been discussed in connection with the acting traditions of Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando, and in 2019 he was named among Mogul's "Next Generation of Hollywood Rising Stars."

In 2022, Laoutides became the lead screenwriter of the film Where Sweet Dreams Die. He is represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA).