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

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and restaurateur. Georges came from a

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family of Polish descent. His mother Mirka (née Zelik) was of Romanian and

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descent. Tiriel's older brothers are film director

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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

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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.

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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 {{australia-film-actor-stub