Aaron Moten | |
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Born | Aaron Clifton Moten February 28, 1989 |
Education | Juilliard School (BFA) |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2011–present |
Spouse | Lilja Rúriksdóttir (m. 2014) [1] |
Aaron Clifton Moten (born February 28, 1989) is an American actor. He began acting as a youth, playing in his school theatre program. After graduating from the Juilliard School, he began professionally acting in New York City, playing in the main cast of the Netflix television sitcom Disjointed (2017–2018). In the 2020s, Moten went on to play in the series Next (2020), Father Stu (2022), Emancipation (2022), and Fallout (2024).
Aaron Moten was born on February 28, 1989 in Austin, Texas. [2] [3] He was educated at the St. Stephen's Episcopal School, [4] where he began acting at the age of 12 after playing the lead role in a production of the Jim Leonard play The Diviners , [4] [3] after which he began participating in his school theatre program. Moten began professionally acting in New York City, where he graduated from the Juilliard School in 2011. [4] That year, he played as Claudio in a Two River Theater production of Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare. [5] In 2012, he appeared in a Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire and was featured in a pilot for an HBO miniseries Criminal Justice. [4]
Moten went on to appear as Avery in the Annie Baker play The Flick (2013), [6] for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. [7] In television, featured in the 2017-2018 Netflix sitcom Disjointed as Travis Feldman, a business school graduate and the son of Ruth Whitefeather Feldman. [8] In 2020, he played as FBI employee Ben in the Fox drama series Next. [9] [10] In 2022, Moten went on to star as Ham in Mark Wahlberg's Father Stu , [11] [12] [13] [14] as well as Knowls in the historical action film Emancipation . [15] [16] [17] In 2024, Moten starred in Amazon Prime Video's post-apocalyptic television series Fallout as Maximus, a Brotherhood of Steel squire. [18] [19] [20] [21]
Moten lives in Iceland with his wife, Icelandic dancer Lilja Rúriksdóttir, whom he met at Juilliard. [22] Moten moved to the country shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic. [23]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2015 | Ricki and the Flash | Troy | |
2016 | The Transfiguration | Lewis | |
2019 | Native Son | Tony | |
2022 | Father Stu | Ham | |
Emancipation | Knowls | ||
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2016 | The Night Of | Petey | Miniseries, 4 episodes |
Mozart in the Jungle | Erik Winkelstrauss | Recurring role, 6 episodes | |
2017–2018 | Disjointed | Travis | Main role, 20 episodes |
2020 | Next | Ben | Main role, 10 episodes |
2024 | Fallout | Maximus | Main role, 8 episodes |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2011 | Much Ado About Nothing | Claudio | Two River Theater production |
2013 | The Flick | Avery | Nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play |
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