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Aza Declercq is a Belgian actress, with over 26 years of professional experience. She studied drama at the Lemmensinstitute of Leuven, continued her studies in Classical and Modern Dance at the School of performing arts/Conservatoire, Antwerp, and took classes at Cours Florent (Paris), at Troubleyn by Viviane de Mynck and Emio Greco.

In 2017 she was nominated as Best Actress for the Maverick Movie Awards and in 2018 for The Universal Film Festival, Kansas (US).

Aza acted in many TV series, feature and short films.

In the feature PATSER (GANGSTA) she played the part of the Italian mother “Maria” (directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilal Fallah/who recently directed the new BAD BOYS 2 with Will Smith), “Véronique” in SALAMANDER2 – directed by Frank Van Mechelen, “MARJOLEINE” in the feature film 10 SONGS FOR CHARITY – directed by Karin Junger. November 2019 she will start shooting for a feature (Psychological Thriller/Working title) in which she will perform the leading part of “MARIA”.

Aza performed in her career a wide range of roles, amongst them she played a small part as the ‘prostitute’ next to Leonardo di Caprio in ‘Total Eclipse’, the ‘Mother’ in the Academy Award Nominated Short ‘Fait d’Hivers’ and ‘Janice’ in the  French production ‘The things they left behind’, which won the First Prize at the Festival Européen du film fantastique de Strassbourg.

Aza was also one of the main voices for over seven years for ACHT (television)-and for over five years for Canvas. She’s a frequently asked Voice Over for commercials, audio guides, e-learning books, animation movies, etc. Recently she gave a workshop voice acting/dubbing at Brussels Short Film Festival.

For the past couple of years, Aza Declercq has also been active as a writer and a director. In 2016, she wrote and directed her first short film ‘La Muerte de Cupido ’ and in 2017 she finished her second short film ‘Sisters’. 2018 ‘La Muerte de Cupido’ (Death of Cupid) won the Award Best Foreign Film at the Universal Film Festival in Kansas, USA.

She is currently working on her first feature film ‘A Thing to feed’ and finished her third short film “Heritage”.

Amongst her passion for acting, Aza is also an experienced horse rider, diver, swimmer, skier and she loves to play the piano. Aza’s mother tongue is Dutch (Flemish), she speaks fluently American English and French and notions of German and Italian.