Dakota Shapiro
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About
Australian actor who has starred in the Aussie TV series Valley of the Boom and the 2021 thriller Eye Without a Face. He was cast in the prequel to The Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. He has 1,000 followers on Instagram.
Before Fame
At 14 he attended Southern California's prestigious Idyllwild Arts Academy. He then spent a year at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, Wales, then returned to Los Angeles.
Trivia
He was one of the top ten finalists for the 2017 Heath Ledger Scholarship. The judges included Gary Oldman, Naomi Watts, and Ryan Murphy. His South African father and American mother were married and lived in India, and Shapiro's christened name was Arun, a Sanskrit word for "morning sun" or "red color."
Family Life
He was born in Byron Bay, Australia.
Associated With
His costars in the Hunger Games prequel include Hunter Schafer, Rachel Zegler, and Peter Dinklage.
