Biography

Aaron Anastasi is an Italian / Eastern European American actor. After shaving his head as an experiment, Anastasi's career spiked, booking four dramatic roles back-to-back including his appearance on Marvel's Runaways (HULU), as well as a paramedic on 9-1-1 (FOX) and Bosch (Amazon), and a recurring role on The Baxters (Amazon).

Spending the majority of his younger years in and around Huntington Beach, California, Anastasi's early years were filled with surfing, playing guitar, and performing music. In high school, Anastasi trained, acted, and sang in a number of music theater productions.

A talented singer-songwriter and vocal coach, his music career took off when he was in college, and for many years Anastasi spent summers and weekends touring widely with his band, including, most notably, Nathan Chapman, two-time Grammy Award winning producer of Taylor Swift, who played guitar on Anastasi's debut album, Star Seven, and later produced several songs for a side project they worked on together called, The Downtown Kids.

After Anastasi stopped performing music, he co-founded several successful music-oriented businesses, including an online singing lesson course entitled Superior Singing Method, with long-time best friend, Chas Smith, a fellow musician and college roommate. With over 100M views and 600K subscribers on YouTube, Superior Singing Method became world-renowned, being ranked the #1 online singing program for over a decade.

Anastasi's most recent acting credits include, Russian Drug dealer, "Yvgeny" on Magnum P.I. (NBC), the NFL Patroits Offensive Line Coach in Aaron Hernandez: American Sports Story (FX), and a recurring role on J.J. Abrams' upcoming series, Duster (HBO Max) playing a Russian criminal. He also recently worked on a feature film, where he played a Russian AI specialist, set to release in 2026. Having booked many Russian characters, Aaron has continues to improve his Russian language skills by taking weekly private Russian lesson's with a native Russian speaking tutor.

Anastasi honed his acting skills under Actor Cress Williams of Black Lightning fame, multi-Emmy-award-nominated director, Robert Allen Ackerman, acting coach Lesly Kahn of Lesly Kahn & Company, Graham Shiels of Graham Shiels Studios (where he also teaches a few acting courses, when he's not shooting) and renowned dialect coach, Bob Corff of Corff Voice Studios.

Anastasi resides with his wife, Martha Anastasi, (m. 2013) in Los Angeles, California.
- IMDb mini biography by: Joy Writer