Ali Rusu-Tahir

Alia Ali RusuTahir is a Moroccan and Romanian actress born in France and raised throughout Canada Her mother is an architect and a writer and her father a computer science researcher She is best known for playing Sasha in the psychothriller film Kryptic which premiered at SXSW 2024 She has also performed in a number of festival short films most notably Passiflora a queer love story screened at the Crazy8s Gala She studied at the University of British Columbia Vancouver where she received her BFA and most recently at Terry Knickerbocker Studio in Brooklyn New York Her theatre credits include the premiere of Christina Cooks Postcards to my Younger Transexual Self Revolt She Said Revolt Again Problem Child and Seven Minutes in Heaven among others Ali is also a musician and a writer