Avan Jogia
Avan Jogia is an actor, born 1992.
Jogia started as a child actor in Vancouver and got his first serious notice as a teenager, playing Danny Araujo in the television film A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (2006). He moved to the United States in his late teens, worked on Caprica as Ben Stark, and then landed the job that defined him for a decade: Beck Oliver on Victorious, from 2010 to 2013.
Almost everything since has looked like a deliberate argument against that. He played Danny Desai in Twisted and Tutankhamun in a period drama, and then spent several years in independent film with real difficulty in it: I Am Michael (2015), 10,000 Saints (2015), Shangri-La Suite (2016), The New Romantic (2018), Now Apocalypse (2019). He is an author and a director as well, which the source we hold notes without elaborating.
The commercial work runs in parallel and uses him more thinly. Shaft (2019), Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) and Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) all trade on the face more than the range, and the Resident Evil casting leans on recognition more than on range. Three 2026 projects sit on this page, including Backrooms and the series 56 Days, so the volume has not dropped even if the interesting parts still tend to be the small ones.
Movies (18)
- Backrooms (2026)
- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
- Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
- Shaft (2019)
- Rags (2012)
- Our Hero, Balthazar (2026)
- Triple Dog (2010)
- iParty with Victorious (2011)
- Johnny & Clyde (2023)
- The Drowning (2016)
- I Am Michael (2015)
- 10,000 Saints (2015)
- Shangri-La Suite (2016)
- The Outcasts (2017)
- Spectacular! (2009)
- A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (2006)
- Choose Love (2023)
- The New Romantic (2018)
TV (8)
Where to start with Avan Jogia
Victorious is what most people know him from, and it is the least interesting thing on this page. Start with I Am Michael instead, a small and uncomfortable independent film that asks him to play sincerity with no irony to hide behind. 10,000 Saints is the other worthwhile drama. Tut is the enjoyable miscasting, a young Canadian actor carrying a pharaoh drama with more conviction than the writing deserves. Zombieland: Double Tap is the funniest studio credit. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is for people who want to see him as Leon Kennedy and will accept a film built around that recognition. Caprica holds the earliest of his good work and is worth it if the science fiction appeals.