Rahel Romahn

Birthplace: Kurdistan, North Iraq

Biography

Rahel Romahn (born c. 1993) is a Kurdish-Iraqi born Australian actor. For his performance in The Principal he was nominated for the 2016 AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama and the 2016 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer. He was the winner of the 2022 Heath Ledger Scholarship.

Roles he has played include the TV series Shantaram and Mr Inbetween and mini-series Australian Gangster, films Little Monsters, Ali's Wedding, Down Under and Alex & Eve and on stage as Mozart opposite Michael Sheen in Amadeus at the Sydney Opera House.