- Born
- Birth nameBarbara Phaly
- Height1.74 m
- Bar Paly was born in Nizhniy Tagil, USSR, before relocating to Tel Aviv, Israel with her family when she was seven. In her early twenties she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her passion for acting. Bar is best known for her recurring role as Special Agent Anna Kolcheck on NCIS: LA, and her hilarious turn as Sorina Luminita in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain. She became a U.S. citizen in 2016.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseIan Kessner(February 10, 2007 - 2018) (divorced)
- ParentsOlga DrobAlexander Paly
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- 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.
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