Ayriel Strange

Ayriel Strange was born (August 1998) and raised in Southfield, Michigan. She is the youngest of her sibling Asyjia LaJai. Ayriel discovered a passion for acting at the tender age of 13 while taking Drama in High school. Her mother after noticing her interest signed her up for classes at Big Starz Urban Youth Theatre, then with Acting coach, Aida Munoz owner of the Actors Workshop, who got her really enthused about becoming an Actress and making a career out of it, which lead her to Studios at Michigan workshops to study with David Anthony (Castings), Cara AnnMarie and Jessica Jordan. After appearing in several local theatrical stage performances, Ayriel had gone on to do minor supporting and lead roles in independent and featured films, Television, Music Videos and film trailers such as "Someone to Watch Over Me", "We Are Men", "Detention", "I Declare War", RIP Uncle Pete" and "Futility" just to name a few. She was extremely thrilled when she got the opportunity to work on the Feature film "24/7" with Antoine "Bunkie" McKay from "Empire" where she portrayed a drug dealer's pregnant girlfriend, also a television pilot with Ian Winans and Mason Pryor called "I Ain't Singing" in which she showed her talent as a young choir girl. But, her far best production credits and opportunity was when she got the call for the part to portray the best friend (Nika) of a Detroit drug dealer's girlfriend in the movie "White Boy Rick"(2018) starring Matthew McConaughey and directed by Yann Demange. Her parents have worked really hard to instill in her to be responsible, mannerisms, education, faith, self-worth and prioritizing. She has really matured over the years and is a natural born actress. Directors are amazed at her characteristics, discipline, creativity and hard work to perform at her best in front of audiences and cameras. Ayriel is attending school at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan studying in Psychology and Theatre still while staying focus, training and continuously casting for principle lead roles in film.