Anna Katriina "Kati" Outinen (born 17 August 1961[1]) is a Finnish actress who has often played leading female roles in Aki Kaurismäki's films.

Her breakthrough role was as a tough girl in the generational classic youth film Täältä tullaan elämä (1980) by Tapio Suominen.

Besides a strong domestic reputation gained through a widely varied list of roles in theatre and television drama, film director Aki Kaurismäki's films have brought Outinen international attention and even adulation, particularly in Germany and France.

[3] The most recent time that Outinen and Kaurismäki worked together was in the film The Other Side of Hope (2017).

She has also given her voice to Ritva Tuomivaara on the video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017).