Asia Kate Dillon Bio | Wiki
Asia Kate Dillon is an American actor. The actor is best known for roles such as in Orange Is the New Black appearing as Brandy Epps and in Billions appearing as Taylor Mason. Asia uses singular they pronouns because the actor is non-binary i.e genderqueer.
Asia’s role on Billions is the first non-binary main character on North American television. The role earned the actor a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Also, Asia played the Adjudicator in the action film titled John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum in 2019.
Asia Kate Dillon Age
They were born on November 15, 1984, in Ithaca, New York, United States of America. Asia is 37 years old.
Asia Kate Dillon Height
They stand at an average height of 5 ft 7 in ( Approx 1.7m).
Asia Kate Dillon Parents
They were born to their father and mother on November 15, 1984, in Ithaca, New York, United States of America.
Asia Kate Dillon Partner
Asia is one of the first non-binary gender-identifying actors to be cast in tv shows. As their marital status is concerned, the actor revealed in November 2020 during a gender talk with Ellen that they have a partner who identifies as male. Currently, Asia is dating Corinne Donly, a theater playwriter. The duo has been together since December 15, 2017.
Just like Asia, Corinne identifies themselves as a non-binary individual. The couple dated briefly in 2008 but broke up and stayed out of touch for some years. In 2017, Corinne contacted Asia to ask them to perform in a public reading of Corinne’s et unproduced play titled Orchid Receipt Service. Asia happily obliged their request to perform having had a lingering romantic admiration in Corinne since the two were together.
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The American Musical and Dramatic Academy graduate enrolled at The Actor’s Workshop of Ithaca where they completed the Meisner training program during their junior year of high school at age 16. During their time as students, they were the youngest to ever be admitted to the class. Asia took the titular role of Rachel Corrie in 2017 in the play titled My Name Is Rachel Corrie. Later, the actor took part in a workshop of plays alongside Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning playwrights.
The actor’s effort to clarify the matter for all non-binary people led to the combination of their gender-segregated categories by the MTV Movie & TV Awards. At the MTV Movie & TV Awards on May 7, 2017, they presented the award for Best Actor. It was announced in November 2018 that Asia would appear in The Outside Story. Apart from acting, Asia serves as the founder and producing director of MIRROR/FIRE Productions. The company created the US, a performance piece exploring racism as well as the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in June 2019, there was an event that was widely considered a watershed moment in the modern LGBTQ rights movement, they were named by Queerty as one of the Pride50 “trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance, and dignity for all queer people”. Asia released their first EP, Handsomehands on March 28, 2020, with the profits donated to Marsha P. Johnson Institute.
Asia Kate Dillon Gender
As non-binary, they were assigned female at birth. Around 2015, Asia started removing gendered pronouns from their biography. An auditioning for the part of Mason helped Asia understand their gender identity. As a pansexual, they are attracted to multiple genders. Asia told The Hollywood Reporter’s “Hollywood Remixed” podcast in September 2021 that they “identify as non-binary” adding that they use they/them pronouns because their “gender identity falls outside the boxes of man or woman.”
Asia Kate Dillon Orange Is The New Black
They were assigned a feature lead role in The Mysteries as Lucifer and also had another role in The Tempest at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. In 2016, Asia played a penitentiary inmate, white supremacist Brandy Epps in eight episodes of Orange Is the New Black. This made Asia one of the first non-binary actors cast in a major tv show. Also, the actor played a recurring role in Showtime Wall Street drama Billions’ season 2 in 2017.
In this, they played the non-binary character role of a hedge fund intern Taylor Mason reported to be the first non-binary character on mainstream North American tv. In April 2017, Showtime confirmed that Taylor would be a regular character in season 3. Asia was allowed to submit for whichever gendered category they wished when submitting their name for an Emmy Award for acting. They also had the freedom to choose between “actor” over “actress” because it is a gender-neutral word.
Asia Kate Dillon Movies And Tv Shows
– 2009 My Popcorn Nights
– 2015 Opus for All
– 2019 John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
– 2020 The Outside Story
– 2011 Hitting the Wall
– 2011 Marcus Garlard: A Necessary Option
– 2015 Younger
– 2015 Master of None
– 2016 We’re All Gonna Die
– 2016–2019 Orange Is the New Black
– 2017–present Billions
– 2019–present Gen:Lock – 2019 The Simpsons
Asia Kate Dillon Net Worth
They have accumulated good wealth from their acting career. The actor has an estimated net worth of $1,276,947.
Is Asia Kate Dillon Related To Matt Dillon
No. Matt Dillon ( Full name: Matthew Raymond Dillon) is a 57-year-old American actor and film director who was born on February 18, 1964, in
New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
Who Is Asia Kate
An American actor best known for roles such as in Orange Is the New Black appearing as Brandy Epps and in Billions appearing as Taylor Mason. Asia uses singular they pronouns because the actor is non-binary i.e genderqueer.
How Old Is Asia Kate
Asia is a 37-year-old American actor born on November 15, 1984, in Ithaca, New York, United States of America.