Muazana "Ana" Golja is a Canadian actress and singer. She is best known for playing Zoë Rivas in the teen dramas Degrassi: Next Class and Degrassi: The Next Generation and Ariana Berlin in the TV movie Full Out.
Career Golja began her acting career in 2005 as Lucy in the Canadian police series 1-800-Missing. She later had small roles in the series Flashpoint and How to Be Indie, before landing a part in the regular cast of Connor Undercover in 2010.
In 2010 with What's Up Warthogs!, she had her first major role as part of the main cast of that sitcom. In 2011, she played Liz in Clue. She then participated in small projects and a web series before landing the role of Zoë Rivas in the Canadian teen drama Degrassi: Next Class in 2013.
In 2015, Golja played Ariana Berlin, in the TV movie Full Out: The Ariana Berlin Movie, a role which earned her a nomination for the Canadian Screen Awards.
Golja recorded the song "Feel So Good" for the Full Out soundtrack, produced by Roy "Royalty" Hamilton. As of January 2016, Golja was working on her debut EP. She released the EP, titled Epilogue over the course of several weeks in November and December 2017.
Golja co-hosted the Albanian festival Festivali i Këngës 57, the annual Albanian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, from December 20 to 22, 2018.
Personal life Golja was born and raised in Toronto to parents from Albania. She later moved to the Streetsville neighborhood in Mississauga, Ontario. She is of Albanian descent, and also has "some Spanish, some Greek, some German, and Jewish" heritage. Golja has stated that she considers herself Canadian "through and through".
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes2014En Vogue ChristmasAmber2015Full Out: The Ariana Berlin MovieAriana BerlinDumb LuckTaylorShort film2017Love On IceNikki Lee2018Crazy for the BoysLondon2019 The CubanMinaAlso producer The FanaticLeah2022Social Industrial MeltdownSuperstarShort film2025Off the GridKatrinaStolen GirlNora
Television Year Title Role Notes20051-800-Missing Lucy2008Flashpoint Penny (10 years old)2009Franny's FeetPanda2010 What's Up Warthogs! Laney Nielsen Connor Undercover Lily Bogdakovitch The Dating GuyLittle Girl ContestantsVacation with DerekIsabellaTelevision film2011How to Be Indie DottyLittle Mosque on the PrairieBetty Sue ClueLizMiniseries2012Super Why!Additional Voices / Girl2013–2015 Degrassi: The Next GenerationZoë RivasMain role (seasons 13–14); 55 episodes 2013Life with BoysCassandraUnlikely Heroes Ellen2014Katie ChatsHerself2015It Goes There: Degrassi's Most Talked About MomentsHerself2015Degrassi: Don't Look Back Zoë RivasTelevision film2016 Conviction Jazmin Peligro2016–2017 Degrassi: Next Class Zoë RivasMain role (seasons 1–4); 32 episodes 2018 Festivali i Këngës 57 Herself Co-host A Father's NightmareSashaTelevision film2020I Do, or Die – A Killer ArrangementSonyaTelevision film
Discography 2015 : Full Out: The Ariana Berlin Movie (Soundtrack) 2018 : Epilogue (Debut Album) 2019: Bailemos feat. Alx Veliz (Single) 2021 : Strive (EP)
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Nominated work Result 2015 Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series Gemini Award Full Out: The Ariana Berlin Movie
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