ACTING
HIGHLIGHTS / OVERVIEW
THE EQUALIZER (CBS)
MELIS AKER as Mira Shah in S2E2 (“The Kingdom”), directed by Randy Zisk
McCall (Queen Latifah) finds herself in the cross-hairs of a foreign government's intelligence agency when her friend Mira (Melis Aker), a diplomat's daughter, seeks McCall's help to find her missing brother.
AIRED: October 17 on CBS (2021)
SENECA (HBOMax)
A film by Armando Riesco & Jason Chaet
MELIS AKER as Asuman, directed by Jason Chaet
David Seneca is a Puerto Rican actor in New York City, who has been struggling for years to make his acting career a success. As David’s hair grays his millennial protégé takes the acting world by storm and David teaches foreign business execs how to reduce their accents. David’s home life is not faring much better- his relationship with his wife is on the rocks, his parenting skills are not exactly up to par, his homeland of Puerto Rico is recovering from its worst natural disaster in recent history, and his childhood mentor is losing his fight to cancer. Cracking under the pressure, David finds himself in a less-than-impressive street fight that goes viral. Now an infamous internet sensation, he is kicked out of his home, and must slowly start picking up the pieces of his life to make himself whole again… A little story about making it big, natural disasters, and being a dad.
PREMIERED: AMC 42nd street, HBO NYLFF (NY, 2019)
AVAILABLE TO WATCH: HBOMax
THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION
(NBC)
MELIS AKER as Volkan Sadik’s Daughter
in S1E2 (“Kevin Jensen“), directed by
Donald E. Thorin Jr.
When an American journalist and close family friend of Scottie is falsely arrested for espionage in a dangerous foreign country, the Halcyon team mounts a last-ditch effort to rescue him before time runs out.
AIRED: March 2, 10:00 PM EST on NBC (2017)
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LOVE IN AFGHANISTAN
by Charles Randolph Wright
MELIS AKER as Roya, directed by Lucie Tiberghien
Meet Duke and Roya, two fantastically different people discovering love in the most unlikely of places: war-torn Afghanistan. One, an emerging hip-hop artist, the other, a high-level Afghan interpreter, both fight to navigate the pitfalls of romance amid the cultural land mines of religious differences and political unrest.
ROUNDABOUT UNDERGROUND READING SERIES (NY, 2013)
ARENA STAGE (Washington D.C., 2013)
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
by Dodie Smith
MELIS AKER as Cassandra, directed by Weylin Symes
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fadingly glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time.
STONEHAM THEATRE (Boston, 2012)
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PROOF
by David Auburn
MELIS AKER as Catherine, directed by Lindsay Carpenter
The young but guarded Catherine grieves over the loss of her father, a famous mathematician who had become a legend at the local university for solving complicated proofs, and for suffering from dementia. Just as Catherine begins to give in to her fear that she, too, might suffer from her father’s condition, Catherine’s older sister Claire returns home to help “settle” family affairs and Hal, one of the father’s old students, starts to poke around the house, only to meddle with a buried family secret.
