Biography

Octavian was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in September 2003. His father is Canadian and his mother is American. He holds dual Canadian and American citizenship. Octavian attends University at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles.

Octavian began his love for film at an early age. His first passion was movie soundtracks. He was inspired by John Williams and enjoyed playing anything from Star Wars to Harry Potter. He discovered film when his father won a FLIP Camera at a work event. He wrote and directed his first movie at age 8 called "Kids vs Alians". While traveling in India with his family in 2011, he began experimenting with stop motion film.

His acting career began in September of 2014 when he was cast as the lead in the "Rollin" music video for the Vancouver Island band, Current Swell. Shortly afterwards, he won the role of Arnie in the short film Strawman (2016) for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the UBC Persistence of Vision Film Festival. In 2022 the second installment of that story The Cameraman Chapter II (2022) featured Octavian returning as Annie. Highlights of his young career have been his speaking role on Once Upon a Time, the role of Young Hunter Zolomon on CW's The Flash which he won a 2016 Joey Award for his performance and his more recent parts on the Netflix Original 'Hater's Back Off' and Supergirl. Octavian was cast as Francis in the short film The Cameraman and achieved critical acclaim with awards from the Vancouver Short Film Festival, The Sapporo Short Festival and a nomination for best actor at the 2016 Leo Awards among others.

Octavian has enjoyed working in voice over on the web series Plum Landing as well as Reboot: The Guardian Code.

Octavian is a multi-award-winning film maker. At 13, he participated in a 96 Hour Film Festival in 2016 with his first short film, The Test. Since then he has written and directed dozens of shorts that have gone on to screen at over 50 film festivals all over the world. His Short MIA was his first Union UBCP/Actra production and went on to win an award of distinction at the Canadian Short Film Festival and was selected to screen at Arthouse Asia. Octavian was 14 at the time. Octavian completed His short Bump in the Night (2019) when he was 16 which went on to be screened at the prestigious Telluride Horror Film Festival among other notable screenings at the Gossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival in Slovenia and the Toronto indie Horror Festival. His multi-award winning short Wormies (2022) screened all over the world, winning Best Short Film at the Terror in the Bay film festival and Best Student Film at the Spooky Empire's International Horror Film Festival.
- IMDb mini biography by: Libby Kaul