Sendi Bar (sometimes Sandy Bar; he, סנדי בר; born April 5, 1976) is an
Israeli actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lit ...
and
model
A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin ''modulus'', a measure.
Models c ...
.
Sendi Baranes () was born in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
,
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
, to a
Sephardic Jewish
Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), pt, Judeus sefa ...
family. Her father is a
Libyan-born Jew, whereas her mother is
Israeli-born and of
Iraqi-Jewish
The history of the Jews in Iraq ( he, יְהוּדִים בָּבְלִים, ', ; ar, اليهود العراقيون, ) is documented from the time of the Babylonian captivity c. 586 BC. Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world's oldest and mos ...
descent.
Bar appeared in commercials for Black and Wild beer,
Milki and Isracart. She modeled for fashion companies
Castro and Pilpel. Bar started her acting career in 1996 in the TV drama ''
Deadly Fortune'', directed by Eran Riklis. It was broadcast on prime time in Channel and was followed by roles in
Zbeng! and Zinzana.
She was married to Israel actor
Aki Avni
Yitzhak "Aki" Avni ( he, אקי אבני; born ), is an Israeli actor, entertainer and television host. He appeared in the movie '' Free Zone'' with Natalie Portman. He also played the character Mohsen in the second season of the television serie ...
during the early 2000s, having a son born in 2004. They resided for several years in Los Angeles, but returned to Israel in 2008 and separated.
Upbeat
- Up Front Edition - Jerusalem Post
References
Prisoners of War
, TV Series (2009–2012)
External links
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1976 births
Israeli female models
Israeli television actresses
Living people
Actresses from Tel Aviv
21st-century Israeli actresses
Jewish Israeli actresses
Israeli people of Turkish-Jewish descent
Israeli people of Libyan-Jewish descent
Israeli Sephardi Jews
Israeli Mizrahi Jews