Desiree Akhavan

Desiree Akhavan is an Iranian-American bisexual filmmaker and actress known for Appropriate Behavior (2014), which she wrote, directed, and starred in — a sharp, funny film about a bisexual Iranian-American woman navigating Brooklyn and her complicated identity — and for The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and starred Chloë Grace Moretz as a teen girl sent to conversion therapy. She also wrote, directed, and starred in The Bisexual (2018), a series exploring the particular invisibility of bisexual women in both straight and gay communities, and served as president of the Queer Palm jury at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Her 2024 essay collection, You're Embarrassing Yourself, won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction.