Aria Gurtchev

Aria Lyra Gurtchev (born April 5, 2002) is an Arolan child actress and social media personality. She is best known for her role in the first four seasons of the Arolan teen drama Ahonaho High.

Family
Aria Lyra Gurtchev was born on 5th April 2002 in, to Arolan-Russian stand-up comedian Dmitri Gurtchev and Arolan actress and current Prime Minister Liisa Makkonen, the eldest of three children, before James (born 2004) and Scarlett (born 2006).

Gurtchev was born prematurely at 28 weeks of gestation, after her mother suffered from placenta praevia. Gurtchev is of Arolan-Finnish-Russian descent.

Career
Gurtchev made her voice acting debut in 2008 as the Arolan Finnish dub voice of the titular character in for a brief time.

Gurtchev was also in the main role of the 2011 film Merellä 2, along with her father Dmitri Gurtchev. Gurtchev most notably landed in the main role of Cerise Salmela in the CTV drama Ahonaho High for the first four seasons.

Following her fame, she started doing skits on her new YouTube channel in 2019, and also launched a VidSpace channel in 2021.