Desiree Akhavan
Birthday: Born in 1984-12-27 in New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: Alive
Desiree Akhavan is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter and actress of Iranian descent, best known for her 2014 feature film debut, Appropriate Behavior, and her 2018 film The Miseducation of Cameron Post.
TV Credits
Girls
Character: Chandra
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna....
The Bisexual
Character: Leila
Leila takes a break from her decade long relationship with partner Sadie, and begins to explore her own bisexuality....
The Slope
Character: Desiree
The Slope is a comedy that follows the lives of a lesbian couple navigating their way through modern-day Park Slope, Brooklyn....
Flowers
Character: Carol
Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children....
Overcompensating
Character: Ronnie
Closeted former football player and homecoming king Benny becomes fast friends with Carmen, a high school outsider on a mission to fit in at all costs. With guidance from Benny’s older sister and her campus-legend boyfriend, Benny and Carmen juggle horrible hookups, flavored vodka, and fake IDs....
Movie Credits
Appropriate Behavior
Character: Shirin
Shirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities....
Creep 2
Character: Sara
After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming to be a serial killer. Unable to resist the chance to create a truly shocking piece of art, she agrees to spend the day with him. However, as the day goes on, she discovers she may have dug herself into a hole from which she can’t escape....
Dykes, Camera, Action!
Character: Self
The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of sexuality and gender, underscoring the power that film has to shape our perceptions of one another. Visually, this documentary comes to life on screen through compelling and intimate original interviews, intercut with emotionally-charged archival footage, photographs, ephemera, inspired music, and film clips....