Ari Aster
Rachel Hickman
Updated on March 12, 2026
LOS ANGELES – NOV 18: Aster at the 10th Annual Governors Awards at the Ray Dolby Ballroom on November 18, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA, kathclick/Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 15, 1986
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Ari Aster is an American filmmaker. He has written and directed the films Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau Is Afraid.
His father is a musician and his mother, Bobbi Lurie, is a poet and visual artist. He briefly lived in England, while his father opened a jazz club there, in Chester. When he was ten, the family moved back to the U.S., settling in New Mexico.
