Who are Avan Jogia’s parents? All about Halsey’s fiancé 

Canadian actor and director Avan Jogia was seen celebrating Halloween with his fiancée, Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, commonly known as Halsey, on October 31, 2025. The 33-year-old Jogia, who gained significant attention after starring in the 2006 television movie A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story, went all out and posed nude with the Without Me hitmaker Halsey for a spooky and bloody Halloween photoshoot.

While Avan Jogia and Halsey's recent nude photoshoot could be considered saucy, the couple looked quite confident in their skin and shared an impressive chemistry as they posed nude with fake blood all over them. Halsey, who, besides being a renowned singer, is also an actress, took to her Instagram on October 31 and shared a carousel post with a caption that read:

"big night out🩸"

Avan Jogia, who broke the news of his engagement to Halsey in September 2024, is also a singer and author. According to IMDb, Avan was born on February 9, 1993, in Vancouver, Canada, to Mike Jogia and Wendy Jogia. He also has a brother, Ketan Jogia, who is a musician.

While Avan's father, Mike, has an Indian background as he belongs to a Gujarati family, his mother, Wendy, has German, Irish, Welsh, French-Canadian, and English ancestry, as per IMDb.

All you need to know about the Canadian-Indian actor Avan Jogia

The multi-talented Avan Jogia, who has starred in several movies and TV shows, was catapulted to fame after playing the character of Beck Oliver in the Nickelodeon series, Victorious, which ran for four seasons from 2010 to 2013. While the role of Beck turned Jogia into a teen sensation, he landed other roles in movies and TV series such as Tut, iParty with Victorious, Zombieland: Double Tap, Choose Love, Ghost Wars, and more.

Besides being an artist, Avan Jogia is also an activist who advocates for human rights and equality. According to IMDb, he is the co-founder of Straight But Narrow, a national charitable organization meant for the LGBTQ+ community.

Avan, who is also an author and has written books such as Mixed Feelings: Poems and Stories, released in September 2019, and Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (poems of Rage, Love, Sex, and Sadness), released in February 2025, during an interview with Gulf News, discussed Hollywood's treatment of racially ambiguous actors.

The Now Apocalypse actor shared how he puts all his effort into fitting in the industry and said:

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"So, I usually get cast in parts where they don’t have to show my family, because that makes it easier."

During Avan's interview with Gulf News, he revealed that he dropped out of high school to become an actor. While his parents gave him just six months to get an acting job or else he had to return and finish his high school, Avan worked extremely hard, landing his role in Victorious.

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