Door Mouse
(Feature film marking Jogia's feature writing and dir...)2022
Johnny & Clyde(Feature film in which Jogia played Johnny.)2023
interactive film
Choose Love(Interactive romantic comedy film in which Jogia played Re...)2023
poetry collection
Mixed Feelings
(Book of poetry, stories, interviews, and visual art about...)
Book of poetry, stories, interviews, and visual art about mixed-race identity, family, religion, and cultural belonging. Jogia authored the work and created its illustrations.
Avan Tudor Jogia is a Canadian actor, director, author, and singer-songwriter. He became widely known as Beck Oliver on Victorious and later played leading roles in Twisted, Tut, Ghost Wars, and Now Apocalypse. His work also includes the books Mixed Feelings and Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob), the band Saint Ivory, and the feature film Door Mouse.
Background
Ethnicity:
His father is a British Indian of Gujarati background, while his mother has English, Welsh, and German ancestry. Jogia has described himself as mixed-race and has explored multiracial identity in his writing.
Avan Tudor Jogia was born on February 9, 1992, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was raised there. His family background connects Gujarati Indian heritage through his father with English, Welsh, and German ancestry through his mother. Jogia has an older brother, Ketan, with whom he later formed the band Saint Ivory.
Jogia has described his mixed-race background as an important part of his creative work. His first book, Mixed Feelings, combines poetry, stories, interviews, and visual art to examine racial identity, family, religion, and the pressure to define oneself through inherited categories. He is a dual citizen of Canada and the United Kingdom.
Education
Jogia attended Killarney Secondary School in Vancouver and left formal secondary education at about sixteen to pursue acting. He subsequently trained through acting classes while beginning professional work in commercials and television. Killarney Secondary School is a Vancouver public secondary school, placing his early education within the city's large public-school system rather than a university or conservatory environment.
Career
Jogia began acting professionally in Vancouver during his teenage years. His first credited screen role was Danny Araujo in the television film A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story in 2006. He then appeared in Aliens in America, Gym Teacher: The Movie, and Spectacular!, followed by a recurring role as Ben Stark in the science-fiction series Caprica.
His breakthrough came with Victorious, the Nickelodeon series in which he played Beck Oliver from 2010 to 2013. He reprised the character in the crossover film iParty with Victorious and also appeared in the television film Rags. He subsequently played Danny Desai in the mystery drama Twisted and portrayed Tutankhamun in the miniseries Tut.
Jogia expanded into more varied television and film roles, including Roman Mercer in Ghost Wars, Ulysses Zane in Now Apocalypse, J.J. in The Stranger, Jack in Orphan Black: Echoes, and Oliver Kennedy in 56 Days. His film credits include Ten Thousand Saints, I Am Michael, The New Romantic, Paper Year, Shaft, Zombieland: Double Tap, The Exchange, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Choose Love, and Johnny & Clyde.
Alongside acting, Jogia has worked as a writer and director. He directed and wrote the short film Alex, later made the short Of Dogs and Men and the web series Last Teenagers of the Apocalypse, and made his feature writing and directing debut with Door Mouse. His creative work also includes music with his brother in Saint Ivory and literary publications addressing identity, fame, love, and emotional life.
Achievements
Jogia co-founded Straight But Not Narrow, an online public-service organization that encouraged young people to support LGBT equality and oppose bullying.
He made his feature writing and directing debut with Door Mouse, expanding his career from acting into feature filmmaking.
He developed a multidisciplinary body of work spanning acting, directing, writing, poetry, visual art, and music with Saint Ivory.
(Television film in which Jogia played Danny Araujo, his f...)
2006
TV miniseries
Tut
(Historical miniseries in which Jogia portrayed the Egypti...)
2015
TV series
Victorious
(Nickelodeon television series in which Jogia played Beck ...)
2010
Twisted
(Mystery drama series in which Jogia played the lead role ...)
2013
Caprica
(Science-fiction television series in which Jogia played B...)
2009
Aliens in America
(Television series in which Jogia played Sam in a recurrin...)
2007
Orphan Black: Echoes
(Science-fiction television series in which Jogia played J...)
2024
Ghost Wars
(Paranormal drama series in which Jogia played Roman Mercer.)
2017
Now Apocalypse
(Starz comedy series in which Jogia played Ulysses Zane.)
2019
Religion
Jogia's writing has addressed religion alongside race, family, identity, and cultural belonging. In Mixed Feelings, religious identity appears as one of the subjects through which mixed-heritage experience can be examined, although no specific religious affiliation is documented.
Views
Jogia's creative work questions rigid labels and treats identity as layered, changing, and shaped by both personal experience and social perception. Mixed Feelings examines how race, family, religion, and culture influence self-understanding while resisting the idea that a person can be fully explained by a single category.
His public statements and creative projects present making art as a way of communicating across differences. His advocacy through Straight But Not Narrow similarly emphasizes active responsibility, solidarity, and opposition to passive acceptance of bullying or discrimination.
Membership
Jogia co-founded Straight But Not Narrow, an online public-service organization focused on encouraging heterosexual young people to support LGBT equality and oppose bullying. The organization used public-service announcements, school outreach, and youth-oriented advocacy to promote active support for LGBT communities.
Co-founder of the online public-service organization.
Straight But Not Narrow
,
United States
2011
Personality
Jogia has described his creative identity as deliberately multidisciplinary, preferring to move among acting, directing, music, writing, and visual art rather than restrict himself to one professional label. In interviews, he has emphasized creative independence and concern about the pressure placed on mixed-race performers to fit fixed racial categories.
Physical Characteristics:
Jogia is approximately 1.80 meters tall.
Quotes from others about the person
Jogia has said that his aim is to create and communicate with the world through different forms, including films, books, music, and performance. He has also spoken publicly about the importance of challenging indifference toward LGBT bullying and discrimination.
Interests
Jogia has expressed interests in fashion, visual art, poetry, filmmaking, youth advocacy, and LGBT equality.
Music & Bands
Jogia performs and writes music with his brother Ketan in the band Saint Ivory. The group's influences have been described as including Radiohead, Brockhampton, MGMT, Björk, FKA twigs, Kate Bush, M.I.A., Portishead, Arcade Fire, and Leonard Cohen.
Connections
Jogia's older brother is Ketan Jogia. The brothers formed the band Saint Ivory and have collaborated on songwriting and recorded music. Jogia has also worked with other artists and performers across film, television, music, and literary projects.
Brother:
Ketan Jogia
He is Jogia's older brother and musical collaborator in Saint Ivory.
References
Simon & Schuster author page for Avan Jogia
Provides publisher information about Jogia's work as an actor, director, author, and musician and identifies Mixed Feelings and Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob) among his books.
Avan Jogia: Biography at a Glance
Summarizes Jogia's acting, directing, and writing career, including Door Mouse, Mixed Feelings, Choose Love, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, and major television roles.
