Biografie

She was born in Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [then the Soviet Union, now Russia] and moved to Israel with her parents when she was seven. She was raised in Tel Aviv.

On August 14, 2016, Paly became a U.S. citizen.

She is of Russian Jewish descent.

Ranked #66 on Maxim's 2014 annual "Hot 100" list.

Her ex-husband, writer-producer-director Ian Kessner, also Jewish, is Canadian, born in Montreal, Quebec.

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.

The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.

I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.

I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.