Tiriel Mora (born 19 October 1958) is an Australian television and film actor.
Early life
He is a son of the late Melbourne artist
Mirka Mora
Mirka Madeleine Mora (18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of contemporary art in Australia. Her media included drawing, painting, s ...
and
Georges Mora,
German-born Australian
entrepreneur
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,
art dealer
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An art dealer in contemporary art typically seeks out various artists to represent, and builds relationsh ...
,
patron
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,
connoisseur
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and
restaurateur. Georges came from a
Jewish
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family of
Polish descent. His mother Mirka (née Zelik) was of
Romanian and
Lithuanian Jewish
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descent. Tiriel's older brothers are
film director Philippe Mora
Philippe Mora (born 1949) is a French Australian film director.
Early life and career
Philippe Mora was born in Paris, France in 1949, and grew up at the centre of the Australian arts scene of the 1950s and began making films with an 8mm camera ...
and art dealer William Mora.
Career
Mora is best known for his role as the hard-nosed journalist Martin Di Stasio, in the TV series ''
Frontline'', and the bumbling local
solicitor Dennis Denuto, in the movie ''
The Castle''.
Mora also appeared in
Qantas
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advertisements in the 2000s, as a
Nebari called Silas in ''
Farscape'' (1999-2003), as Judge Renmark in
ABC-TV's legal drama ''
Janet King'' (2014), and in the feature film ''
Dinosaur Island'' (2014). He recently featured in
Matt Drummond's family film,
''My Pet Dinosaur'' (2017). In 2018 he started appearing in ''
Home and Away'' as a lawyer.
References
External links
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1958 births
Living people
Australian male television actors
Australian male film actors
Australian people of French-Jewish descent
Australian people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Australian people of Polish-Jewish descent
Australian people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
Jewish Australian male actors
Mora family
Australian people of German-Jewish descent
Male actors from Melbourne
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