Aylam Orian is a multilingual European-American actor known for Stargate Origins (2018) (series regular: Nazi villain Wilhelm Brücke), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), Code Black (2015), The Informer (2019), and others. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Israeli parents of German, Polish, Russian and Romanian descent, Aylam (pronounced Aey-lahm) was an artistic kid, taking up painting, sculpting, photography and playing the guitar. But it wasn't until after his military service, and working in the local Cinematheque, that he decided to go into the arts and enrolled in Tel Aviv University Film School. A short film he made there, Siyut Birkhov Bialik (1994) (a witty homage to the famous Russian film Bronenosets Potemkin (1925)), won several prizes and was later shown at the Cannes Film Festival. While acting in his own films and appearing in several TV commercials, he caught the 'acting bug' and so in early 2000 he returned to the US to study acting at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and later The Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York. While a student at the Strasberg Institute, Aylam was hired by Anna Strasberg to organize and preserve Lee Strasberg's extensive collections of materials on acting - a position he held for the next 9 years, before starting to teach there. Upon graduating, he made his US TV debut in the A&E mini-series Between the Lines (2004) hosted by Robert Downey Jr., where he joined the ranks of Hillary Clinton, John Goodman and Priscilla Presley in reading unknown letters written by famous people - his was no other than a love letter written by a young Adolf Hitler. Soon after, he played the leading role of a fugitive on the popular Fox show America's Most Wanted (1988). Other roles followed, such as in the independent films Joy Incorporated (2012), Keep the Lights On (2012), and The Cold Winter (2016); the TV shows 30 Rock (2006) and In God's Name (2007); and the off-off-Broadway stage productions of The Duchess of Malfi, Uncle Vanya, Yom Kippur and his own movement-theatre show and film Beautiful World... (2006). in 2012 Aylam left New York for Los Angeles, where he has been racking up co-star and guest-star appearances on such shows as Code Black (2015), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), Shooter (2016), The Guest Book (2017) and AJ and the Queen (2020); the films The Informer (2019) and Ford v Ferrari (2019); and numerous VO projects using his multiple language skills. Recently, Aylam played the leading role of Hermann Van Pels in the US premiere of the Dutch play "Anne" (based on the Anne Frank story) at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and the series regular role of the Nazi villain Wilhelm Brücke in the latest installments of the "Stargate" franchise: Stargate Origins (2018) and Stargate Origins: Catherine (2018).