Inbar Lavi
Birthdate: Oct 27, 1986
Birthplace: Ramat Gan, Israel
Inbar Lavi is an Israeli-born actor best known for her recurring series roles in MTV’s Underemployed (2012-2013), Fox’s Gang Related (2014), Bravo’s Imposters (2017-2018) and Eve on Netflix’s Lucifer (2019-2021), and made her feature debut as co-star with Kevin Sorbo and Michael Pare in the Albert Pyun-directed fantasy adventure, Abelar: Tales of an Ancient Empire (2010), produced by New Tales/Underhill Films.
Lavi was in the cast of director/writer/producer Nathaniel Coffman’s high school comedy, Getting That Girl (2011), with Escher Holloway, Gia Mantegna and Luke Eberi, and produced by Ital Films/Fly High Films/Black Bay Entertainment, and then Lavi played a supporting role in the horror movie, Underground (2011), with Ross Thomas, Sofia Pernas and Adrian R’Mante under Rafael Eisenman’s direction, and released by Vantage Media International.
Lavi joined the cast of the crime drama, For the Love of Money (2012), co-starring James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Edward Furlong, Yehuda Levi, Jeffrey Tambor, Oded Fehr, and Delphine Chaneac under Ellie Kanner-Zuckerman’s direction, and released by Archstone Distribution.
Lavi starred in director/story writer/producer A.D. Calvo’s supernatural thriller, House of Dust (2014), released on home video by Anchor Bay Entertainment, and then Lavi was cast in her first bigger-budget production, The Last Witch Hunter (2015), based on the character of Melkor the Witch-Hunter that star/producer Vin Diesel (a huge Dungeons & Dragons fan) created for the game, co-starring Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie, Julie Engelbrecht and Michael Caine under Brett Eisner’s direction, and grossing $147 million for Lionsgate.
Inbar Lavi co-starred with Justin Bartha, Bruce Greenwood, and Kevin McDonald in Canadian director/writer Collin Friesen’s black comedy, Sorry for Your Loss (2018), with Lolita Davidovich and Sandrine Holt, and released by Incendo Productions and produced by Farpoint Films/Middle Child Films. Lavi then co-starred with Jack Kesy in director/writer Geert Heetebrij’s supernatural thriller, The Manifestation (2024), with Usman Ally, and produced by GRLA/Wolverine Films.
Lavi co-starred with Emile Hirsch in director/producer Sean McNamara’s biopic of Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor Joseph Bau, Bau: Artist at War (2024), with Yan Tual, Adam Tsekhman, Edward Foy, and Josh Zuckerman, co-written by Ronald Bass, Deborah Smerecnik, and Sonia Kifferstein, and released in a limited pattern by Falling Forward Films. Lavi starred in director/writer Judd Bloch’s murder thriller, Black Diamond (2025), with Jake McLaughlin, Shaun Sipos, and Ray Panthaki, and was produced by Hemlock Circle Productions.
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Personal life
Inbar Lavi was born and raised by her Polish-descent father and Moroccan-descent mother, Batia. sister brother. Lavi attended the Kiryat Sharet School of Arts, studying ballet and modern dance, and then Lavi attended the Sofi Moskowitz School of Acting to study acting, followed by earning a full scholarship to the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles. Lavi has been married to Dan Bar Shira since 2021; the couple has one child, Ariel. Lavi’s height is 5’ 3”.
Known For
Imposters
(2017)
Lucifer
(2016)
Fauda
(2015)
Prison Break
(2005)
Inbar Lavi Movies
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Previous (6)
- 2025 |
Bau: Artist at War
The inspiring love story of Joseph Bau, artist, forger, holocaust survivor. Using his artistic skills, humor and hope in the camps, Joseph stays alive and helps hundreds to escape. Miraculously, he finds love in the midst of despair.
- 2024 | The Manifestation
- 2021 |
For the Love of Money
When a single mother is pushed to her limit, she turns to the only world she knows, a world she's spent a lifetime running from, to protect her daughter.
- 2018 | Sorry for Your Loss
- 2013 | House of Dust
- 2010 | Abelar: Tales of an Ancient Empire
Facts About Inbar Lavi
What’s in a Name?Inbar Lavi’s first name translates as “amber” in Hebrew.
Condition: Lavi experienced the condition of asthma as a child, requiring her use of an at-home nebulizer, which led to her watching many movies at home and thus, as she termed it, “fell in love with cinema.”
Her Worst Job: Lavi has said that her worst job was waiting tables at a New York City restaurant. “My boss was evil,” she said.