Aylam Orian

Aylam Orian is a multilingual European-American actor known for We Were the Lucky Ones (2024), Stargate Origins (2018) (series regular: Nazi villain Wilhelm Brücke), The Informer (2019), Code Black (2015) and NCIS: Los Angeles (2009).

Born in the US to Israeli parents of German, Polish, Russian and Romanian descent, Aylam (pronounced Aey-lahm) was an artistic kid, taking up painting, photography and playing the guitar. After his military service as an officer, while working at the local Cinematheque, he got introduced to the great masters of cinema, which made him enroll in Tel Aviv University Film School. A short film he made there, A Nightmare on Bialik Street (1994) (a witty homage to the famous Russian film Battleship Potemkin (1925)), won several prizes and was later shown at the Cannes Film Festival. After acting in several of his own films and a few TV commercials, he decided to switch to being in front of the cameras, and returned to the US to study acting at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and The Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.

While a student at the Strasberg Institute, Aylam was hired by Anna Strasberg to organize and preserve Lee Strasberg's extensive collections of materials on acting - a position he held for the next 9 years, before starting to teach there. As an actor, he made his US TV debut in the A&E mini-series Between the Lines (2004) hosted by Robert Downey Jr., where he joined the ranks of Hillary Clinton, John Goodman and Priscilla Presley in reading unknown letters written by famous people - his was no other than a love letter written by a young Adolf Hitler. Soon after, he followed up with roles on America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (1988), 30 Rock (2006), the independent films Joy Incorporated (2012) and The Cold Winter (2016), and the off-off-Broadway productions of The Duchess of Malfi, Uncle Vanya, Yom Kippur and his own movement-theatre show/film Beautiful World... (2006). Guest appearances in Code Black (2015), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), Shooter (2016), The Guest Book (2017), AJ and the Queen (2020), and Ford v Ferrari (2019) amassed upon moving to Los Angeles, leading up to the series regular role of Nazi villain Wilhelm Brücke in the latest installment of the "Stargate" franchise: Stargate Origins (2018) / Stargate Origins: Catherine (2018).

Aylam also returned to the theatre, originating the role of Hermann Van Pels in the US premiere of the play "Anne", a retelling of the Anne Frank story. Due to his multiple languages skills (5 languages), in addition to being a sought-after VO/ADR/looping artist in Los Angeles, he has also branched out to the international arena with roles in The Informer (2019) and We Were the Lucky Ones (2024).