Desiree Akhavan

Desiree Akhavan is a British-Iranian 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. Akhavan has spoken extensively about bisexual representation and the particular invisibility of bisexual women in both straight and gay communities.