Avan Jogia

Avan Tudor Jogia (born February 9, 1992) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for playing Ben Stark in Caprica, Beck Oliver on Victorious, Danny Desai in Twisted, and Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the miniseries Tut.

Early life
Jogia was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. His father is a British Indian expatriate of Gujarati ethnicity, who immigrated to Canada, and his mother is of English, Welsh and German descent. Jogia speaks some Gujarati. Jogia is a dual citizen of Canada and the United Kingdom.

Career
His first role came in 2006, when he played Danny Araujo, the younger brother of a teenage transsexual woman, Gwen Araujo, in the television movie A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story, directed by Agnieszka Holland. He appeared in The CW TV series Aliens in America as the character Sam. In 2008, he appeared as Champ on Gym Teacher: The Movie and Tajid in Spectacular!, both for the Nickelodeon network. Jogia played Ben Stark in the TV series Caprica, a spin-off of Battlestar Galactica, on the Sci Fi Channel. Jogia portrayed Beck Oliver in the Nickelodeon television program Victorious, which premiered in March 2010; he also appeared as Beck Oliver in the Victorious crossover movie, iParty With Victorious. He co-hosted the Transformers: Dark of the Moon premiere on June 28, 2011 in New York.

Jogia was cast in the lead role of Danny Desai on the ABC Family series Twisted (originally titled Socio), which premiered on June 11, 2013; the show was cancelled after one season. In 2014, Jogia was cast to play the lead role of King Tut in the Spike miniseries, Tut; the miniseries premiered on Spike on July 19, 2015.

Personal life
He attended Killarney Secondary School until the age of 16, before leaving school to pursue acting full-time. Avan Jogia has been in a relationship with American actress Zoey Deutch since September 2011. He is also best friends with Victoria Justice whom he has known since Nickelodeon film, Spectacular!.

Jogia also founded the online PSA organization Straight But Not Narrow supported by his good friend Josh Hutcherson, which is aimed towards changing the attitudes and viewpoints of young, straight people about the LGBT community.