Aylam Orian

Aylam Orian is a multilingual European-American actor known for Stargate Origins (2018) (series regular: Nazi villain Wilhelm Brücke), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), Code Black (2015), The Informer (2019), and others. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Israeli parents of German, Polish, Russian and Romanian descent, Aylam (pronounced Aey-lahm) was an artistic kid, taking up painting, sculpting, photography and playing the guitar. His affinity for languages landed him a significant position in the military, but it wasn't until he worked at Tel Aviv's Cinematheque and getting introduced to the works of the great cinema masters, that he fell in love with the arts again and enrolled 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. While acting in his own films to save time and money, he caught the 'acting bug', and after appearing in several TV commercials he returned to the US in 2000 to study at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and later 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. 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 played a fugitive on the long-running Fox show America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (1988), followed by appearances in the NBC hit series 30 Rock (2006), the TV film In God's Name (2007), and a plethora of independent films such as Joy Incorporated (2012), Keep the Lights On (2012), and The Cold Winter (2016). He also treaded the boards of New York City's off-off-Broadway theatre scene, appearing in productions of The Duchess of Malfi, Uncle Vanya, Yom Kippur and his own movement-theatre show / film Beautiful World... (2006). In 2012 Aylam left New York for Los Angeles, where he has been racking up guest appearances in such TV shows and films as Code Black (2015), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), Shooter (2016), The Guest Book (2017), AJ and the Queen (2020), The Informer (2019) and Ford v Ferrari (2019), leading up to the series regular role of the Nazi villain Wilhelm Brücke in the latest installments of the "Stargate" franchise: Stargate Origins (2018) and Stargate Origins: Catherine (2018). In addition to regularly lending his voice and multiple languages skills to other films, TV shows, video games and animation projects, and teaching 'Method Acting' in his own studio in Los Angeles, Aylam returned to the theatre in 2019, playing the role of Hermann Van Pels in the US premiere of the play "Anne", about the life of Anne Frank.