Before 2023, chances are you had never heard of Aria Mia Loberti.
Now, she’s probably one of your new favorite actors.
Although Loberti had never acted before, she blew Levy away and won the role.
Now, Loberti plans on continuing her acting career while also fighting for more diversity and representation in Hollywood.
Curious to learn more about the young woman who was plucked from obscurity to star in a Netflix series?
Here is the stunning transformation of Aria Mia Loberti.
Loberti grew up in Johnston, Rhode Island in what she toldMarie Clairewas a “lower-middle-class family.”
Loberti grew up very much aware of the discrimination those with disabilities face.
As a young girl, she struggled to imagine herself fulfilling her dreams.
She didn’t know it then, but all of those dreams would one day come true.
“I did everything I could to hide,” she told Marie Claire.
“It wasn’t fashion-forward,” she explained.
“It was armor.”
She loved acting and singing and often put on one-woman performances for her parents.
“Looking back, I realize storytelling and performing were always a part of me.
“Many, many years of preprofessional ballet training are not lost on me.
kindly remind me of this next time I trip,” she wrote in the caption.
In another post, Loberti shared avideoshowing her fight training.
“Self-Defense: Blind Girl Style -white cane bo-staff.
Loberti is also a trained yoga instructor.
In 2016, she was honored as a U.N. “I learned that I can meet challenges,” Loberti toldThe University of Rhode Island.
“I cannot live and thrive without all of this activity.
She then won a Fullbright scholarship to study ancient rhetoric at the Royal Halloway University of London.
As a student, Loberti finally felt that she belonged.
“The world always told me you don’t belong.
My immediate family were the only people countering that message,” she told Rhody Today.
“I was having a really rotten week.
“And it was right after COVID.”
However, she loved the novel, so she decided to film an audition on her laptop.
She never expected to get the part.
When Loberti landed the role of Marie-Laure, she couldn’t believe it.
After all, the team had auditioned thousands of women.
“It was such a fun audition process and it was very empowering.
That’s all I was seeking a new experience, a challenge,” admitted to Rhody Today.
“I didn’t expect anything more to come of it.
I think it was just pure shock when I learned.”
“Marie will take root on screen as a fully independent, fully realized, fully empowered character.”
“I had spreadsheets and notebooks,” she told Vanity Fair.
She told the outlet that she wrote fanfiction about Marie-Laure and studied up on Saint-Malo.
She even found radio broadcasts from that time period to really help make her portrayal authentic.
“Overintellectualizing is really bad in acting,” she said.
“I had never been on a set.
Of course, there were actually hundreds of people there.
It was, naturally, pretty overwhelming.
Luckily, the entire team made sure that Loberti felt comfortable on set.
Aria Mia Loberti learned a lot from her cast mates
Then there was the actual acting.
“What was difficult was being a first-time actress,” Aria Mia Loberti told Town & Country.
“star Hugh Laurie,Mark Ruffalo, and Louis Hoffman helped her find her feet as an actor.
“Little by little, I watched her get great.”
“There’s a sort of pride that comes with getting dressed now.
I can finally wear the pieces that demonstrate how I feel on the inside.”
Loberti is the kind of person who canmake a thrifted vintage piece look brand new.
She tends to fill her wardrobe with second-hand clothes that make her feel powerful.
Sometimes that’s traditional masculine clothes, and sometimes, it’s pretty feminine silhouettes.
“Fashion has become tactile, multi-layered, even sonic for me.
Although she’s still working on her Ph.D., she’s also determined to keep on acting.
I want to continue to make beautiful things with beautiful people.
Things that matter.”
It’s sounds like we might be seeing Loberti on our screens again before too long!
In fact, Loberti believes that her story is proof that change is long overdue.
“I have never felt represented,” she said.
Maybe now, things will finally start to change thanks to Loberti’s performance and advocacy.
