Aaron Moten

Aaron Clifton Moten (born February 28, 1989) is an American actor. He began acting as a youth, playing in his school theatre program. After graduating from the Juilliard School, he began professionally acting in New York City, playing in the main cast of the Netflix television sitcom Disjointed (2017–2018). Moten has since starred in Next, Father Stu (2022), Emancipation (2022), and Fallout (2024–present).

Early life and career Aaron Moten was born on February 28, 1989 in Austin, Texas. He was educated at the St. Stephen's Episcopal School, where he began acting at the age of 12 after playing the lead role in a production of the Jim Leonard play The Diviners, In 2012, he appeared in a Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire and was featured in a pilot for an HBO miniseries Criminal Justice. for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. In television, featured in the 2017-2018 Netflix sitcom Disjointed as Travis Feldman, a business school graduate and the son of Ruth Whitefeather Feldman. In 2020, he played as FBI employee Ben in the Fox drama series Next. In 2022, Moten went on to star as Ham in Mark Wahlberg's Father Stu, as well as Knowls in the historical action film Emancipation. In 2024, Moten starred in Amazon Prime Video's post-apocalyptic television series Fallout as Maximus, a Brotherhood of Steel squire.

Personal life Moten lives in Iceland with his wife, Icelandic dancer Lilja Rúriksdóttir, whom he met at Juilliard. Moten moved to the country shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Filmography Film YearTitleRole Notes 2014 Top Five Supermarket Fan 2015 Ricki and the Flash Troy 2016 The Transfiguration Lewis 2017 Ironwood Devin Mann 2019 Native Son Tony2022 Father Stu Ham Emancipation Knowls TBA Nightwatching TBA Filming

Television

Stage YearTitleRoleVenue Notes 2011 Much Ado About Nothing ClaudioTwo River Theater 2012 A Streetcar Named Desire Young CollectorBroadhurst Theatre Broadway 2013The FlickAvery Playwrights HorizonsWorld premiere; Off-Broadway Nominated–Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play 2015 Barrow Street TheatreOff-Broadway 2019 Romeo and Juliet RomeoThe Old Globe