Ger Duany was born in 1978 in what is now South Sudan. Displaced by the civil war, he was forced to become a child soldier, eventually finding refuge in Ethiopia and Kenya and emigrating to the United States in 1994. He was cast as a refugee in 2004’s I Heart Huckabees by director David O Russell, who wanted someone with first-hand experience to play the part. An accomplished basketball player, he has worked as an actor and model ever since, and is about to star alongside Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng and Emmanuel Jal in The Good Lie.

– This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.