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- Mojean Aria is an Australian actor, writer and producer. In 2017, he won the Heath Ledger Scholarship.
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Mojean Aria is an Australian actor, writer and producer. In 2017, he won the Heath Ledger Scholarship. [1][2] Early life and career. Aria was born in Sydney, Australia. He first started taking acting lessons at the age of six. [citation needed] .
Feb 25, 2023 · The name Mojean Aria is plastered on Hollywood film posters across the United States. The 30-year-old has starred in feature films alongside Jason Momoa, Hugh Jackman and Antonio Banderas. But here in Australia, where Aria is from, the actor is almost unknown.
- Mahmood Fazal
- 'People Would Make Fun of My Name'
- 'Your Kids Don't Have to Just Be Doctors'
- How Aria's Persian Mother Helped Him Be An Actor
- Always Feeling Like 'The Other'
- The Case For Bringing Diversity to The screen
- Challenging The Stereotype of What A Movie Star Looks Like
After moving to Los Angeles almost a decade ago, Aria is now temporarily back in Australia, making films locally and working with the Australian Institute for Performing Arts (AIPA) to offer a scholarship for Middle Eastern and North African youth (aged 12 — 20) in Sydney. When AIPA approached Aria to teach a week-long masterclass, he agreed on the...
Aria believes it's inevitable that screen content will become more reflective of its multicultural audience. But there's a long way to go: a 2016 report by Screen Australia found that Australia's minorities and marginalised communities are under-represented in TV drama; specifically, it was rare to see people of Asian, African or Middle Eastern des...
Aria says his mother Maryam, who fled Iran after the 1979 revolution, is unusual among immigrant parents in that she has supported him in his acting career. In fact, she enrolled him at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) at the age of six. In 2004 Aria won a scholarship to McDonald College High School of Performing Arts, and the followin...
Aria has spent his whole life trying to define his identity and never feeling as though he fits in. For children of immigrants, this sense of not belonging entirely to one camp or another is a common one. This notion of 'other', Aria says, has always been a double-edged sword. "I've had it both ways, where I've had, you know, Anglo people tell me t...
Aria says Australian filmmakers are now understanding that bringing cultural diversity to film and television is not just desirable – it's essential. "Australia is such a multicultural country and that's the [world] we live in, but the stories that we digest don't really represent that and so they are not really resonating because they don't feel t...
In terms of his own career, Aria has brought his "ethnic flair" to screens in two main ways. He's been cast in stereotypical roles, such as an Iranian medical student (in Dead Lucky) — and is comfortable with that, saying, "I can bring my culture to the screen". But he's also been challenging the norms of what certain cultures look like, and bringi...
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Jun 2, 2017 · Mojean Aria says winning the scholarship means everything. The 24-year-old actor was named the 9th recipient of the Heath Ledger Scholarship at a gala dinner in Los Angeles hosted by the industry ...
Nov 4, 2019 · MEAWW reporter Alana Jordan on the red carpet premiere of the new AppleTV+ dystopian drama, SEE, and spoke with actor Mojean Aria about his role, Gether Bax. ...more.
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Mojean Aria 14 Oct 2018. The actor and 2017 winner of the Heath Ledger scholarship discusses the importance of the award and how it’s inspiring Australians to succeed in Hollywood. There aren’t that many moments when you can be certain your life is set to change course, but one of them arrived for me in mid-2017.
Jan 13, 2020 · Mojean Aria is in the midst of filming the biggest role of his career in a Warner Bros sci-fi thriller alongside one of his heroes in Hugh Jackman, plus Rebecca Ferguson, Thandie Newton, Cliff Curtis and Daniel Wu.
