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Aki Avni (; born April 27, 1967) is an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i actor, entertainer and a television host. He appeared in the movie Free Zone with Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman is an Israeli United Statesn actor. Portman began her career in the early 1990s, turning down the opportunity to become a child model in favor of acting....
. He also played the character Mohsen in the second season of the television series 24. Former husband of Israeli model Sandy Bar
Sandy Bar

Sandy Bar is an Israeli actress and model.Bar was born in 1976 in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a mother of Yemenite Jews and a father with Moroccan Jews....
. They resided for several years in Los Angeles with their child. They returned to Israel in 2008, and separated.

Avni was born and raised in Rehovot
Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometre south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 106,200....
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Aki Avni (; born April 27, 1967) is an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i actor, entertainer and a television host. He appeared in the movie Free Zone with Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman is an Israeli United Statesn actor. Portman began her career in the early 1990s, turning down the opportunity to become a child model in favor of acting....
. He also played the character Mohsen in the second season of the television series 24. Former husband of Israeli model Sandy Bar
Sandy Bar

Sandy Bar is an Israeli actress and model.Bar was born in 1976 in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a mother of Yemenite Jews and a father with Moroccan Jews....
. They resided for several years in Los Angeles with their child. They returned to Israel in 2008, and separated.

Avni was born and raised in Rehovot
Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometre south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 106,200....
. While in school he began performing in various shows in his home town. When growing up he had a mediocre model
Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who poses or who is displayed for the purpose of art, fashion, or other product s and advertising....
ing career, and afterwards served in the Israeli Air Force
Israeli Air Force

The Israeli Air Force is the air force of the Israel Defense Forces. The current Commander in Chief is Aluf Ido Nehoshtan. The Israeli Air Force has approximately 700 aircraft....
, where he practiced photography
Photography

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
. Following his military service, he joined an entertainment
Entertainment

Entertainment is an activity designed to give people pleasure or relaxation. An audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games....
 troupe at a hotel in Eilat
Eilat

Eilat is Israel's South District city, a busy port as well as a popular resort, located at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on the Gulf of Aqaba....
, appeared in children's shows and in commercials, and trained at Yoram Levinstein's acting studio. His big breakthrough arrived when he was elected to be a co-host in the "Tossess" youth television program
Television program

A television program , television programme , or television show is something that people watch on television. It may be a one-off broadcast or, more usually, part of a periodically recurring television series....
 in Israel's Arutz 1. In 1992 he co-starred in the musical Lelackek T'toot (Licking the Strawberry), alongside Aviv Geffen
Aviv Geffen

Aviv Geffen is an Israeli Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, keyboardist and guitarist. He is the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover , brother of Shira Geffen, and a graduate of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music....
 in Naarei Hachof (The Beach Boys) and played a dramatic role of a young homosexual man in the film Chesed Mufla (Amazing Grace). In 1993 he played in another film, called Zarrim Balaila (Strangers in the Night).

In 1994, with the launching of Arutz 2, Avni began hosting the date-show Stutz (Fling) and the musical Pachot o Yoter (More or Less). In 1995 he hosted the Pre-Eurovision contest, participated in the film Shachkanim (Actors) and in the musical Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
 and starred in the play West Side Story
West Side Story

West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
 alongside Noa Tishby
Noa Tishby

Noa Tishby is an Israeli-born actress, Model and singer, currently residing in Los Angeles, United States.An actress and a singer, Tishby got her first big break at 16 playing the lead in the original hit musical "David", for which she won national recognition....
. However, so far Avni had been regarded as a mediocre actor only, known mainly as a television host and stage actor. But he came to critical acclaim, at home and abroad, with his performance in Time of Favor
Time of Favor

Time of Favor is Israelis writer-director Joseph Cedar 2000 in film debut film, starring Aki Avni. The film plays out a psychologically complex love triangle in the middle of terrorist conflict in Israel's West Bank....
 in 2002. Avni finished shooting his most recent film, Homeland Security, is in post-production. The film stars Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas

'Jos? Antonio Dom?nguez Banderas' , better known as 'Antonio Banderas', is a Spanish people film actor and singer. He began his acting career at age 19 with a series of films by director Pedro Almod?var and then starred in high-profile Hollywood films including Assassins , Evita , Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicl...
, Meg Ryan
Meg Ryan

Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra , professionally known as Meg Ryan, is a Golden Globe Awards American film actor whose lead roles in five 1990s Romantic comedy film - When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, French Kiss , City of Angels and You've Got Mail - grossed over $870 million worldwide....
 and Colin Hanks
Colin Hanks

Colin Lewes Hanks is an American actor....
 and is due to be released summer 2007.

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