Julian Maroun | |
|---|---|
| Born | Julian Maroun |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2015–present |
| Television | Fighting Season , Romper Stomper |
Julian Maroun is an Australian actor, best known for his roles as Corporal Peter "Pepsi" Abboud in Fighting Season and Farid in Logie Award-winning miniseries Romper Stomper .
Maroun's parents were born in Lebanon. [1]
Maroun's first acting role was in a pilot version (created for network distribution) of The Horizon in 2015, which as of October 2019 [update] was the most watched online series made in Australia and the most watched LGBTQI web series in the world. [2] His first Australian television role was in Catching Milat in 2015, directed by Peter Andrikidis. [3]
In 2015, Maroun starred in and co-produced his debut short film with best friend Joseph Chebatte, Three Hearts, [4] which was nominated at the Dances with Films festival in Los Angeles, screening at the Chinese Theatre Hollywood. [5]
He played supporting roles in Australian television shows Cleverman , [6] Janet King [7] and Girt by Fear, [8] before a major dual role as twin brothers Haris and Amir Rexhaj in Deep Water , with Yael Stone and Noah Taylor in 2016. [9]
In 2017, Maroun was given leading roles in the Logie Award-winning miniseries Romper Stomper [10] (with David Wenham, Lachy Hulme, Sophie Lowe) and the Foxtel/Goalpost series Fighting Season [11] (with Jay Ryan, Ewen Leslie, Kate Mulvany), as well as a supporting role in international feature film Slam opposite Adam Bakri in 2018. [12]
In 2018, Maroun and Chebatte produced their second short film, Entrenched, starring Maroun and Toby Wallace, about four Australian soldiers in Afghanistan who capture a young boy. [13]
Maroun appears in the first episode of the first series of the 2019 ABC TV series, Diary of an Uber Driver . [14]
Maroun appears in Season 2 of Aftertaste . [15]
In 2024, Maroun appeared in season 3 of ABC drama Total Control (TV series) .
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Catching Milat | Paymaster | ||
| Meat | Jimmy | |||
| 2016 | Cleverman | Anton | ||
| Girt by Fear | Nema | |||
| Deep Water | Harris/Amir (twin brothers) | |||
| 2017 | Janet King | Tyler Parati | ||
| 2018 | Romper Stomper | Farid | ||
| Fighting Season | Corporal Peter "Pepsi" Abboud | |||
| The Horizon | Kasim / Kass | Pilot episode | ||
| 2019 | Diary of an Uber Driver | Moe | ||
| 2021 | Harrow | Aaron Sharpe | 1 episode | |
| Mr Inbetween | Harris | 1 episode | ||
| Australian Gangster | Detective | 1 episode | ||
| Home and Away | Detective Darren Nasser | 6 episodes | ||
| 2022 | The Secrets She Keeps | Carlos | 6 episodes | [16] |
| 2022 | Aftertaste | Harry | 6 episodes | [17] |
| 2023 | Year Of | Narrator | 1 episode | |
| 2024 | Total Control | Constable Pollard | Season 3 1 episode | |
| Ladies in Black | Elias | 6 episodes | [18] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Gods of Egypt | Young Soldier | ||
| 2015 | Three Hearts | Dean | Producer (short film) | |
| 2018 | Entrenched | John | Producer (short film) | |
| 2019 | Slam | Omar | ||
| 2020 | Mother Dearest | N/A | Producer (short film) | |
| 2021 | The Fourth Wall | Actor | ||
| 2022 | Mia & Me: Hero of Centopia | King Nino | ||
| 2022 | Transfusion | Jerome | ||
| TBA | The Correspondent | Mohamed Fahmy | [19] |