Aryana Engineer (born March 6, 2001)[1] is a Canadian actress who made her debut in the 2009 horror film Orphan, as a little girl named Max, alongside Vera Farmiga.
The neighbour (Brenda Campbell) who discovered her was an agent, who suggested Aryana for the role of five-year-old Maxine "Max" Coleman in the film Orphan (2009).
When director Jaume Collet-Serra saw that Aryana had the ability "while crying, to perform a scene -- to immediately go from there still keeping this emotion", he knew she was the one for the part.
She also represented Canada with her brother at the 2010 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony, welcoming viewers using sign language.
In the film, Aryana plays a deaf girl named Becky who builds a mother-daughter relationship with the main character Alice (Milla Jovovich).