Luzer Twersky
Luzer Twersky (born July 26, 1985) is an American film and television actor.[1] He is best known for his role in the film Felix and Meira, for which he garnered a Jutra Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor at the 18th Jutra Awards[2] and won the Best Actor award at the Amiens International Film Festival[3] and the Torino International Film Festival.[4]
Born and raised in Brooklyn as a Hasidic Jew, Twersky left the community in 2008 after struggling with his faith.[5] He later met fashion designer Duncan Quinn, becoming a model and a retail manager for Quinn's store in Los Angeles[1] until taking his first acting role in 2010. By 2012, he was cast in his first leading role, in the film Where Is Joel Baum?.[1]
In 2015, he also had a recurring role in the television series Transparent.[6] Twersky and fellow Formerly Hasidic Transgender activist, Abby Stein, are cousins, in two ways. Twersky said that being related to a her made him realize that "I can’t possibly understand what it’s like for a person to come out. I can’t imagine being in her shoes."[7]
References
- 1 2 3 "In ‘Felix & Meira,’ Luzer Twersky Revisits the Hasidic World He Left". The New York Times, April 2, 2015.
- ↑ "«La passion d'Augustine» et «Corbo» nommes 10 fois aux Jutra". Canadian Press, January 25, 2016.
- ↑ "Félix & Meira à l'affiche le 30 janvier". canoe.ca, December 18, 2014.
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- ↑ "Breaking Away: A year in the life of Luzer Twersky, a 23-year-old former Satmar who left hasidism behind". Tablet, December 13, 2010.
- ↑ "An Interview with Luzer Twersky: From Ultra-Orthodox to “Transparent” Star". MyJewishLearning, December 15, 2015.
- ↑ "But I’m always very careful to compare. Here’s the thing: you’ve got to be super careful to compare yourself to anyone else’s plight. It’s like Jews get super-sensitive when you compare anything to the Holocaust. I try not to compare: my experience was like my experience. I can’t possibly understand what it’s like for a person to come out. Abby Stein is my cousin, twice. She’s my second cousin on my dad’s side and she was married to (and now divorced from) my first cousin. I can’t imagine being in her shoes."