Aaron Moten

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Aaron Moten
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Born
Aaron Clifton Moten

(1989-02-28) February 28, 1989 (age 35)
Austin, Texas, U.S.
Education Juilliard School (BFA)
OccupationActor
Years active2011–present
SpouseLilja 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).

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Early life and career

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]

Career

Moten (third from left) with Walton Goggins, Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan at SXSW 2024 Fallout Series activation with Walton Goggins, Todd Howard, Aaron Moten, and Jonathan Nolan at SXSW 2024 (2).jpg
Moten (third from left) with Walton Goggins, Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan at SXSW 2024

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]

Personal life

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]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2014 Top Five Supermarket Fan
2015 Ricki and the Flash Troy
2016 The Transfiguration Lewis
2017IronwoodDevin Mann
2019 Native Son Tony
2022 Father Stu Ham
Emancipation Knowls

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2014 NCIS Wendell HobbsEpisode: "Crescent City (Part II)"
2015 The Mysteries of Laura Ben LeeEpisode: "The Mystery of the Intoxicated Intern"
2015–2016 Mozart in the Jungle Erik Winkelstrauss6 episodes
2016 The Night Of Petey4 episodes
2017–2018 Disjointed TravisMain role
2020 Next BenMain role
2024–present Fallout MaximusMain role

Stage

YearTitleRoleVenueNotes
2011 Much Ado About Nothing Claudio Two River Theater
2012 A Streetcar Named Desire Young Collector Broadhurst Theatre Broadway
2013 The Flick Avery Playwrights Horizons World premiere; Off-Broadway

Nominated–Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

2015 Barrow Street Theatre Off-Broadway
2019 Romeo and Juliet Romeo The Old Globe

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