| Julian Maroun | |
| Birth Name: | Julian Maroun |
| Birth Date: | 4 April 1993 |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Television: | Fighting Season, Romper Stomper |
| Years Active: | 2015–present |
Julian Maroun (born 4 April 1993) is an Australian actor, best known for his roles as Corporal Peter "Pepsi" Abboud in Fighting Season and Farid in Logie Award-winning miniseries Romper Stomper.
Maroun's parents were born in Lebanon.[1]
Maroun's first acting role was in a pilot version (created for network distribution) of The Horizon in 2015, which was the most watched online series made in Australia and the most watched LGBTQI web series in the world.[2] His first Australian television role was in Catching Milat in 2015, directed by Peter Andrikidis.[3]
In 2015, Maroun starred in and co-produced his debut short film with best friend Joseph Chebatte, Three Hearts,[4] which was nominated at the Dances with Films festival in Los Angeles, screening at the Chinese Theatre Hollywood.[5]
He played supporting roles in Australian television shows Cleverman,[6] Janet King[7] and Girt by Fear,[8] before a major dual role as twin brothers Haris and Amir Rexhaj in Deep Water, with Yael Stone and Noah Taylor in 2016.[9]
In 2017, Maroun was given leading roles in the Logie Award-winning miniseries Romper Stomper[10] (with David Wenham, Lachy Hulme, Sophie Lowe) and the Foxtel/Goalpost series Fighting Season[11] (with Jay Ryan, Ewen Leslie, Kate Mulvany), as well as a supporting role in international feature film Slam opposite Adam Bakri in 2018.[12]
In 2018, Maroun and Chebatte produced their second short film, Entrenched, starring Maroun and Toby Wallace, about four Australian soldiers in Afghanistan who capture a young boy.[13]
Maroun appears in the first episode of the first series of the 2019 ABC TV series, Diary of an Uber Driver.[14]
Maroun appears in Season 2 of Aftertaste.[15]
In 2024, Maroun appeared in season 3 of ABC drama Total Control (TV series).
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Catching Milat | Paymaster | ||
| Meat | Jimmy | |||
| 2016 | Cleverman | Anton | ||
| Girt by Fear | Nema | |||
| Deep Water | Harris/Amir (twin brothers) | |||
| 2017 | Janet King | Tyler Parati | ||
| 2018 | Romper Stomper | Farid | ||
| Fighting Season | Corporal Peter "Pepsi" Abboud | |||
| The Horizon | Kasim / Kass | Pilot episode | ||
| 2019 | Diary of an Uber Driver | Moe | ||
| 2021 | Harrow | Aaron Sharpe | 1 episode | |
| Mr Inbetween | Harris | 1 episode | ||
| Australian Gangster | Detective | 1 episode | ||
| Home and Away | Detective Darren Nasser | 6 episodes | ||
| 2022 | The Secrets She Keeps | Carlos | 6 episodes | [16] |
| 2022 | Aftertaste | Harry | 6 episodes | [17] |
| 2023 | Year Of | Narrator | 1 episode | |
| 2024 | Constable Pollard | Season 3 1 episode | ||
| Ladies in Black | Elias | 6 episodes | [18] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Gods of Egypt | Young Soldier | |||
| 2015 | Three Hearts | Dean | Producer (short film) | ||
| 2018 | Entrenched | John | Producer (short film) | ||
| 2019 | Slam | Omar | |||
| 2020 | Mother Dearest | N/A | Producer (short film) | ||
| 2021 | The Fourth Wall | Actor | |||
| 2022 | Mia & Me: Hero of Centopia | King Nino | |||
| 2022 | Transfusion | Jerome | |||
| TBA | The Correspondent | Mohamed Fahmy | [19] |