Actor

Ava Lalezarzadeh

USA

Ava Lalezarzadeh is an actress and writer/poet from Southern California. She made her Off-Broadway debut originating the role of Goli in Atlantic Theater Co/Roundabout Theater Co’s English—recipient of an Obie award 2023 and Lucille Lortel award for Best Play. Credits include a series regular role in the pilot Wild Life (HBO/Imagine Ent), a guest star in New Amsterdam (NBC), and voices a new character in the upcoming season of Big Mouth (Netflix). Ava’s screenplay In the Garden of Tulips won the screenwriting competition at HollyShorts Film Festival 2022. Currently, World Premiering at the Oscar Qualifying Aspen Shortfest is her proof of concept short film, In the Garden of Tulips.

Notable work

7.6
Big Mouth (2017)
as Nazanin (voice)
7.7
The Morning Show (2019)
as Roya Nazeri

Often works with

Navid Negahban
2 titles together
In the Garden of Tulips, London Arabia

Full filmography · 8

English
as Goli
2025
Dandelion
as Margaret Levine
2025
In the Garden of Tulips
as Caroline and Writer
2023
London Arabia
as Amina
2019
The Pursuit
as Cara
2018