Vancouver native, Avan Jogia landed his first acting role as 'Danny Araujo 'on the award-winning TV movie drama "A Girl like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story," directed by Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland. Jogia followed up with a recurring role on the SyFy Channel hit series "Caprica," as well as becoming series regular role the CW's "Aliens in America." Recently receiving notice amongst a wide audience with his lead role as Beck on Nickelodeon's Emmy nominated series "Victorious," Avan can now be seen as Danny Desai on ABC Family's "Twisted." Having a special interest in youth human rights and equality, Avan lends his support to many charitable organizations: as a Peace First Ambassador for Peacefirst.org, host of the PBS series "Reel Works," and founder of the national charitable organization Straight But Not Narrow.
Good friends with Josh Hutcherson.
Best friends with Victoria Justice.
Avans father is from a Gujarati Indian family. Avans mother has English, Welsh, and some German, ancestry. Part of Avans mothers family had lived in the United States before moving to Canada.
Friends with fellow Canadian actor Landon Liboiron.
Plays piano, guitar and accordion.
Avan co-founded the charity Straight But Not Narrow in 2010 to help train young adults on how to support their LGBTQ friends and colleagues.
Was in a punk band in high school.
Is of Indian-Canadian descent.
I always do whatever is best for the character.
I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce,stuff and write stuff.
I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to,make your own destiny in this world.
You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there,you have to build your own path.
[on what he loves most] Art, my girlfriend and cheeseburgers.
