Alan O'Silva

Alan O'Silva is an actor who grew up in a small mountain town near Transylvania and got his start in 1994, when he joined the youth theater Ariel, run by his mentor Geny Migleczi. Within a month he had a lead role in The Danaides, a Greek tragedy after Aeschylus staged by Silviu Purcarete; the production toured for three and a half years and earned awards at festivals such as the Edinburgh International Festival and the Lincoln Center Festival. He went on to complete a Master of Drama at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, training in Shakespeare as well as radio, television, and film. His self-written, self-directed, self-performed one-man show Fish On Dry Water won four of five stars at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He played the main suspect in the detective series Taggart, and later took the part of Casio in an Andriy Zholdak production of Shakespeare's Othello. He worked in movies, TV series, and commercials.