Aja Naomi King

Aja Naomi King ( born January 11, 1985 at Los Angeles County, California) is an American actress who became known for her role as Cassandra Kopelson in the hospital drama Emily Owens international notoriety.

Life and career

King was born in the beginning of 1985 in the most populous county in the United States and grew up in the small town of Walnut founded in 1959. Their initial plans to pursue a career as a doctor, she rejected in the junior year of high school because their grades in mathematics and science were inadequate for them personally. After she began her acting career at a young age and gained some experience, among others, in high school, she moved at an advanced age at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she was an actress in use also. Her drama teachers here were Irwin Appel, Risa Brainin and Tom Whitaker; her vocal training, she graduated with Michael Morgan; their teacher for motion sequences was James Donlon, who has worked on films such as, among others, Dolores ( 1995) or Love in the Time of Cholera (2007).

Under Appel she played with at the University of the pieces Angels In America by Tony Kushner and Pentecost by David Edgar; in addition, it was involved in Appel at the Shakespeare Santa Barbara at play The Comedy of Errors. They also played at the Raven Playhouse in North Hollywood in the drama Richard III. with, where her role of Lady Anne was given. It came with a " Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting " for the young young actress at the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut. There she was trained by a number of top university teachers and used in a large part of internationally known pieces; Moreover, it has been increasingly used in comedic plays and cabaret. In addition to two appearances at the Yale Cabaret, founded in 1968, they also had nine appearances on the main stage of the Yale School of Drama and two appearances at the Yale Repertory Theatre. In 2010 she completed her studies at Yale with a Master of Fine Arts.

From about this time, began her career as an actress actually in film and television. After she was seen in 2008 in the short film Gloria Mundi, had the young actress who the Actors' Equity Association (short: AEA) belongs appearances in two other short films. She was seen in the 20-minute A Basketball Jones in the role of Sarah Walker, and was a celebrity in the 33 -minute drama Eve by Sarah Lasley, a Yale graduate with completion in 2008. Besides, she was in this year and in the second episode of the first season of the CBS crime series Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York to see. In 2011 she took on a role in the movie algebra in Love, starring, among others, with Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Carrie MacLemore, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Hugo Becker and Ryan Metcalf.

A year later she was on the side of Wendell Pierce, EJ Bonilla or Emory Cohen in the film drama Four, which at the Los Angeles Film Festival celebrated its premiere on 15 June 2012 and was officially released about a year later to see. In the independent film, she took over the role of the film daughter of Wendell Pierce and was awarded the main cast of the film at the premiere with an " Audience Award " in the category "Best Performance in a Narrative ". Here, the film sat in its category against nine other films with, in part, by Topbesetzung; other awards and nominations should follow. Additional performances have had this year even in some nine -minute short film Love Synchs, as well as in an episode of Person of Interest. The real breakthrough was followed the same year when she starred in the lead role of the medical assistant is Cassandra Kopelson in the short-lived medical drama Emily Owens. Ordered by The CW series was canceled after only one season with 13 episodes broadcast after the audience was mediocre at the premiere and over time fewer and fewer viewers expressed interest in the series. King presented here in all 13 episodes of the Antagonistin played by Mamie Gummer Emily Owens dar.

In 2013 followed the California native further engagements in film and television; as she was about to see in the pilot episode of the satirical magazine The Onion titled Onion News Empire, which was first published on Amazon.com. Another important role they had this year in the thriller 36 Saints, who came on 6 September 2013, the U.S. participated in the cinemas and, among others, Donna McKechnie, Franky G, Jeffrey De Serrano, Britne Oldford and Chris Riggi. Furthermore, she appeared in an episode of Jon Bokenkamps series The Black List. For 2014, two publications of other projects with Aja Naomi King's planned participation. In the wacky in December 2013 television series The Black Box they will be on display from January 2014 in a recurring role in three different episodes. She also took a role in The Reluctant Professor, a film by Marc Lawrence, starring, among others, Hugh Grant and Marisa Tomei, who is currently (as of January 1, 2014 ) is in post-production. Hugh Grant stars as a former successful screenwriters who could also win an Oscar for " Best Original Screenplay " in the late 1980s, however, his old successes can no longer connect.

So far, two German voice actress Kings are only known. On the one hand you lent Esra Vural, known as hard voice of Ashley Tisdale and voice of many other well-known actresses, the German voice in Person of Interest; secondly, it was dubbed into Emily Owens of the equally strong operational Ilona Brokowski.

Filmography

• 2008: Gloria Mundi ( short film )
• 2010: A Basketball Jones (Short Film )
• 2010: Eve (Short Film )
• 2011: Algebra in Love ( Damsels in Distress )
• 2012: Four
• 2012: Love Synchs (Short Film )
• 2013: Onion News Empire ( pilot episode )
• 2013: Saints 36

• 2010: Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York ( Blue Bloods ) (1 episode )
• 2012: Person of Interest (1 episode )
• 2012-2013: Emily Owens (Emily Owens, MD) (complete series, 13 episodes )
• 2013: The Black List (1 episode )

Awards

• 2012: " Audience Award " in the category "Best Performance in a Narrative " at the Los Angeles Film Festival for their commitment in Four (along with Wendell Pierce, EJ Bonilla and Emory Cohen )