Hen Yanni
Born (1983-01-20) January 20, 1983
Kiryat Motzkin, Israel
NationalityIsraeli
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
  • model
  • DJ
Years active1999-present

Hen Yanni (Hebrew: חן יאני‎; born 20 January 1983) is an Israeli actress, singer, model and DJ.

Personal life and career

She was born and raised in a suburb of Northern Israel, near Haifa and currently lives between Barbizon village in France and Tel-Aviv.

During the years 1999-2003 she worked as a model in Paris, New York City and London. She photographed to the magazines Italian Vogue, French Vogue, V Magazine, The Face and ID. Her major campaigns includes companies like Paul & Joe,[1] Dolce & Gabbana and Kenneth Cole. She was photographed by photographers like Craig McDean, David Sims and Mario Testino.[2]

At the age of 21 she started acting. In 2008, Yanni played the major role in the feature film The Other War,[3] directed by Tamar Glazerman.[4] In 2010, she played a supporting role in the feature film Melach Yam, directed by Itay Lev,[5] where she made a cover version to Shlomo Artzi's song "You will Never know". In 2012, she played a supporting role in Haim Buzaglo[6]'s feature film Blank Blank.[7]

In 2011, she starred Doron Eran[8]'s film Melting Away, in which she played the lead role of a transgender person.[9][10] In Melting Away, she sings two songs, one of them is "Danny Boy".[11] Yanni won a breakthrough performance award at the LGBT Tel Aviv international Film Festival, was nominated for Israeli Academy award for best actress.[2]

Her first single Where Do We Go was released on 20 January 2023 and received warm reviews around the world while attracting people to her release party & Live Show at La Folie Barbizon. The video for Where Do We Go was a collaboration with director and photographer Aleph Molinari, the choreographer Sharon Eyal, and stylist Camille Bidault-Waddington. [12] A retro-modern reverie, the video captures Hen at her most vulnerable, her image replicated into an infinite mirror where she confronts herself.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Découvrez l'univers coloré des collections Paul & Joe Paris ®️". Paul and Joe (in French). Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  2. 1 2 Hen Yanni's artist biography Archived 2013-10-15 at the Wayback Machine in Yitzug1 agency
  3. ↑ Glezerman, Tamar, The Other War (Drama), Keren Berger, Orit Zafran, Hen Yanni, Tel Aviv University Film & Television Department, retrieved 2023-06-08
  4. ↑ "Tamar Glezerman". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  5. ↑ "Itai Lev". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  6. ↑ "Haim Bouzaglo". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  7. ↑ about Hen Yanni Archived 2012-12-11 at the Wayback Machine, in Hen Yanni's site
  8. ↑ "Doron Eran". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  9. ↑ Melting Away (2011) - Plot - IMDb, retrieved 2023-06-08
  10. ↑ "הטרנסג'נדרית הזו היא יאני". mako. 2012-01-09. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  11. ↑ Danni boy - Hen Yanni from "Melting away", in MME site
  12. 1 2 Hen Yanni - Where do we go? (Official Video), retrieved 2023-06-08
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