Background
He was born in Santa Monica, California, and moved to Melbourne with his family when he was two years old.
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Ashley Zukerman
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Ashley Zukerman is an actor best known for playing Doctor Charlie Isaacs on World's Greatest Newspaper America"s Manhattan created by Sam Shaw, and for portraying Jesse Banks on the Australian political thriller The Code, for which he received an AACTA award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama in 2014.
Education
Zukerman attended Wesley College, Melbourne, at the Glen Waverley campus and began a degree in Science and Engineering at Monash University before being accepted into the Victorian College of the Arts.
Career
Graduating from the VCA in 2006, his professional career began in the theatre. He had a critically acclaimed role in The History Boys, directed by Peter Evans for the Melbourne Company. He then appeared in Home Box Office"s war miniseries The Pacific, which premiered 14 March 2010 and also in Lowdown created by Adam Zwar and Amanda Brotchie.
In 2011, after his time on Rush, Zukerman joined the cast of the short lived but loved Steven Spielberg produced scifi Terra Nova.
Zukerman then returned to the theatre working with director Eamon Flack at the Belvoir Company on As You Like lieutenant playing Orlando, and then two years later on Angels in America playing Joe Pitt. He went on to play socially dysfunctional hacker Jesse Banks opposite Dan Spielman in the Australian political thriller The Code created by Shelley Birse.
Achievements
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His Australian break out came when he played Constable Michael Sandrelli on the long running series Rush for which he was nominated for a Logie award in the Most Outstanding New Talent category. Angels in America went on to win Best Play at the 2014 Helpann awards. The show garnered huge national and international acclaim and 10 AACTA award nominations, out of which it won 6 including Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama for Zukerman. Early in 2014 Zukerman won the role of ambitious wunderkind Doctor Charlie Isaacs in the World's Greatest Newspaper America original drama Manhattan created by Sam Shaw and directed by Thomas Schlamme.
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