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Andrew Luri is a Sudanese-Australian actor. He made his acting debut in the film Hearts and Bones (2019), for which he was nominated for an AACTA Award.
- An Unexpected Career in Acting
- The Stabilising Role of Faith, Music, and Church
- Keeping His Feet on The Ground
Nominated for an AACTA Award for his role as Sebastian, Andrew came to the job through a friend who put his name forward to the casting agent. Speaking with Hope 103.2 Andrew said, “Most of the things that they wanted [Sebastian] to do I could do. And [the director] Ben gave me his word; he said, ‘I trust you’, and trust means a lot to me. The prod...
Andrew’s character Sebastian also has a love of church and music, which Andrew says is much the same for him. “My brother’s a Bishop, and the church is very important to our lives,” Andrew said. “We grew up as believers and played all kinds of music growing up in the church… Music and church is actually something very interesting – it makes people ...
Making Hearts and Boneshas certainly afforded Andrew a lot of opportunities to share his story of going from being a refugee to a film star, but he approaches his newfound influence with a level head. “Some of the youth around [Melbourne] say, ‘We want to follow in your footsteps’,” said Andrew. “I’ve been to places I’m not supposed to be; I’ve rub...
Sep 14, 2019 · The second is the arrival of Sebastian (Andrew Luri), a South Sudanese refugee who's heard about Dan's work. Like Dan, Sebastian doesn't speak to his wife (Bolude Watson) about the horrors he's...
- Perri Nemiroff
- Senior Producer
May 6, 2020 · The cab driver, Sebastian (played by excellent newcomer Andrew Luri) seems more self-aware. He runs a refugee choir at a local church hall as a kind of therapy session for fellow trauma survivors. He gets Dan to join them, with some incessant, softly spoken badgering.
- Jason Di Rosso
Sep 19, 2019 · ‘Hearts and Bones’ stars Andrew Luri, Bolude Watson, director Ben Lawrence and star Hugo Weaving. For director Ben Lawrence, the reaction to his feature debut Hearts and Bones at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was both “emotional and overwhelming”.
- Natalie Apostolou
Apr 25, 2020 · His debut feature, Hearts and Bones, is an authentic fiction, starring Hugo Weaving and first-time actor Andrew Luri, a South Sudanese-born refugee. Also shot in Sydney’s west, it was a labour of love, written and directed by Lawrence.
In Ben Lawrence's beautifully acted debut feature, a war photographer Hugo Weaving and a refugee Andrew Luri discover a photograph that threatens to destroy them both. Daniel Fisher Weaving returns home, and despite his partner's protests, prepares for his next dangerous overseas assignment.
