URI grad Aria Mia Loberti is now starring in a Netflix drama. What's ahead in 2024?
Name: Aria Mia Loberti
Age: 29
Hometown: Johnston
Position: Actress
University of Rhode Island graduate Aria Mia Loberti made her acting debut this year in "All the Light We Cannot See," and fans will get to see her in another role in 2024.
Loberti will appear in the "The Spiderwick Chronicles," an eight-episode series scheduled for release on the Roku streaming platform this spring.
A Johnston native, Loberti had just started the Ph.D. program at Penn State University, and she had no acting experience when she was chosen in November 2021 for the role of Marie-Laure LeBlanc in the four-part Netflix series based on Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller.
Loberti, who is legally blind, continued on full-time Ph.D. status while working on "All the Light We Cannot See" and "The Spiderwick Chronicles," but she took a leave of absence last spring to focus on acting and other work.
"This feels like a pivotal time in my acting career, so I am focusing most of my energy there," Loberti says.
She is trying to get two novels published, one written by herself and the other with her best friend. Loberti will also continue her work as a brand ambassador with L’Occitane en Provence, a French beauty-care retailer, as well as her advocacy for UNICEF, a United Nations humanitarian agency that supports children across the world.
"I am looking forward to exciting projects in 2024," she says.
This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: 'All the Light We Cannot See' star Loberti preps for 'Spiderwick Chronicles'
