Reminiscence
2021
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Mojean Aria is an Australian actor, writer and producer. In 2017, he won the Heath Ledger Scholarship. Early life and career. Aria was ...
YearTitleRole2007Cross LifeDonald2009Fate TrainAngus2010PurgatoryJohn Everton2010Surprise!BenMojean Aria is an Australian actor of Iranian and Lebanese descent who has appeared in films such as Reminiscence, The Enforcer and Shayda. He is also a producer, writer and director of several short films and a podcast series.
- Actor, Producer, Writer
- 6 min
- '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
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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...
Mojean Aria, who has worked with Hugh Jackman and Jason Momoa, offers a scholarship for Middle Eastern and North African youth to learn acting from him. He shares his experience of being an 'other' in the industry and his mother's support for his career.
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Mojean Aria. Actor: Shayda. Mojean's latest film Shayda opened the World Cinema section at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award. The film is executive produced by Cate Blanchett. For his performance Mojean has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor for the 2024 AACTA Awards which is Australia's counterpart to the Academy Awards. Mojean became the first ever winner ...
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 ...
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Australia’s own Mojean Aria, who has been making moves in Hollywood with roles in films like Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan and The Bronx Bull, stars as Gether Bax, a disloyal member of the village. In 2017, he was a recipient of the Heath Ledger Scholarship and ever since, he’s gone on to bigger and better things.
Jun 30, 2017 · Mojean Aria, who starred in The Bronx Bull and Aban & Khorshid, received the prestigious scholarship from Australians in Film in 2017. He shared his personal story of growing up in a hotel with his single mother and his passion for Iranian culture and stories.
