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Aylam Orian

Aylam Orian was born in Cleveland, Ohio on September 4, 1968 to Parents of Russian, Polish, and Romanian descent. Just a little while after he was born, his family moved to Israel, where he grew up as a very artistic child. He took on Photography, guitar, sculpting, and even writing. In 1993, after completion of his Israeli army service, he enrolled at the Tel Aviv University Film School, where he quickly gained recognition for a short film he made: Siyut Birkov Bialik (1994). This masterpiece won several awards and achieved high critical acclaim. After acting in some of his own, and his friends' films, he realized that he had a passion for standing in front of the cameras that was equally as great as standing behind them. So in 1999 he moved to New York to study at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and The Stella Adler Studio of Acting. His national TV debut was in the outstanding miniseries by A&E, "Between the Lines," hosted by Robert Downey Jr., and made another big television appearance on the popular Fox series "America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back" (1988), and afterwards made a few other appearances in commercials, miniseries, and made-for-television films. In 2010 Aylam re-edited his film Siyut Birkhov Bialik (1994) and released it as "A Nightmare on Bialik Street". For a while, Orian taught at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, but he has recently relocated to Los Angeles, where he looks for his next acting stint.

Notably, Aylam also appeared on the hit show "30 Rock"'s sixth season finale, where he appeared as an angry rabbi screaming on a street corner.

Orian is an active animal rights activist, with his own animal rights orginization "Animal Freedom International."

Along with his many skills, he is fluent in English and Hebrew, along with some French, Yiddish, German, and Russian.

Orian's contact information can be found on his website http://www.aylamorian.com/