Maria Zhang Parents and birth
Maria Zhang parents had a love marriage both are from artistic backgrounds and different nationality. Maria Zhang’s mother belongs to Poland and her father is from China. Maria’s mother is an oil painting artist and her father is a Sculptor. When Maria Zhang’s parent met in St Petersburg in an art school and started falling in love both of them started learning English to understand each other’s language as both of them come from different countries, they were not aware of each other’s language.
A few years later they got married and became parents of Maria, After Maria was born and turned 1 year old, they moved to Bejing where she completed her schooling in Chinese primary school. She used to spend her summers in Poland with her grandparents. Her grandparents had a farm where they used to grow their fruits and vegetables.
Maria Zhang’s First Step in Acting
When she was 12 years old she and her sister saw a paper clipping that was from a theater group who were looking for an actor and it could be anyone. Maria decided to give it a try and she was introduced to theater story. She was very happy about this and used to rehearse and say dialogues for the stories. She was very happy about this opportunity and she would have regretted if she had missed this.
To continue her learning she moved to Southern California and got admission to USC(University of Southern California). When she got the official training for acting there she realized it was very difficult here and at the same time, she also thought of her dreams.
In her Junior in Amsterdam, she did a play directed by Lilac Dekalb Meri an Israeli director who visited as a guest at USC
Her Biggest Projects
All I Ever Wanted
After she completed graduation she got her first biggest project called “All I Ever Wanted”, directed by Vietnamese American director Van B and directed by Erin Lau
This move was of an obsessed teen who always thought of perfect romance but later on, realized her prince charming would be prince charming
Her Director’s statement about the film was
“Our film continues the important work of broadening what an Asian and Asian American experience looks like by showcasing a joyful queer love story. We are all at different stages of reckoning with the complexities of our identities as Asians and Asian Americans. We are a community that has struggled with a forgotten history of exclusion, erasure, invisibility, and the loss of individuality. We have taught ourselves to shrink, to soldier on, to suppress our tears and diminish our pain, conditioned by a false narrative of insignificance. The pandemic made us newly visible – but as targets of intensified hate and xenophobia. It’s in these times of great suffering and hate that it becomes even more vital to uplift and celebrate our art, our joy, and our love. In closing, after a year of great difficulty, our team hopes this film provides you with both comfort and warmth.”
Avatar – The Last Airbender
After All I Ever Wanted, Maria got the role of Suki in the Netflix live adaptation of Avatar-The Last Airbender. Which changed her life got the learn many things and got a chance to work with a talented team to enhance her knowledge about acting.
This Showrunner Albert Kim who is a Korean-American he attempted to have the whole cast and crew Asian.
“For showrunner Albert Kim, the series is “a chance to showcase Asian and Indigenous characters as living, breathing people. Not just in a cartoon, but in a world that truly exists, very similar to the one we live in.””
What Maria has to say about the Move
“She thinks Film has a real power to make people feel like it ok to be a little different and it’s ok to not really know who you are and where you belong to”
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