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- Hari Nef is a 24-year-old Jewish American actor, model, and activist. She’s also the first transgender model to be signed to a major modeling agency (IMG), not to mention the first to land an Elle British cover.
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- Nef was born in Philadelphia to a Jewish family. She moved to the Boston suburbs with her mom when she was 5 years old, after her parents divorced. Of her childhood, she said she grew up “a weird, chubby, popular and artsy” Jewish kid; “I was this overachieving, over-programmed public school student, but I was also a rebellious teenager doing drugs, sneaking off with boys and lying to my mom.”
- She started school at Columbia University in 2011 and graduated in 2015 with a degree in theater. At Columbia, she began transitioning. She explained, “That was one of the most powerful experiences.
- Her parents have been supportive of her transition. Her dad, David, told Philly.com, “We encouraged her to do whatever made her happy. I’m not going to say it’s been easy, but I felt strongly that I love my kid.
- Her first Instagram post is from all the way back in March 2013
- She’S An Actress as Well as A Model, and Starred in Season 2 of Transparent.
- She’S Tight with Jill Soloway.
- She’S Also Tight with Laverne Cox.
- She Was One of The First Trans Models Signed to IMG Worldwide.
- She Considers Her Modeling Career A Political Act.
- She Gets Real About Privilege and Positioning When It Comes to Trans issues.
Nef plays Gittel, a trans woman and an ancestor of the Pfefferman family, who is seen in flashbacks of late-Weimar era Berlin. Her character finds community and understanding at the Institute of Sexual Research, which was run by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, one of the first advocates for the rights of sexual and gender minorities.
Nef met the Transparentshow-runner through her sister, Faith Soloway, who was Nef’s former counselor at an arts camp. Jill Soloway brought Nef as her date to a gala for PFLAG (an LGBTQ advocacy group originally known as Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), and told New Yorker reporter Michael Schulman that she had really found her ...
Nef is friends with her fellow trans celebrity and Orange is the New Black star, posting pictures of the two of them on her popular Tumblr page. Cox and Nef are also part of a bigger community of trans activists, including models Juliana Huxtable and Isis King.
IMG, which is one of the biggest agencies in the fashion industry, signed Nef in 2015, only two weeks after her graduation from Columbia.
Nef began modeling while still in the beginning stages of her transition. She considers her choice not to wait until her transition was more under way, and instead to transition publicly, a political act of visibility. “I wanted to be in the world,” she told Vogue.com. “I’m not trying to self-aggrandize, but it’s more than a job to me. It’s politic...
Though she is in many senses a pioneer, Nef recognizes that she is able to do much of what she does because of her privilege as a white, well-off, college educated woman from a first world country, whose gender as a woman aligns with a binary that people are familiar with. She has been vocal about this on social media, where she has also addressed ...
Early life and education. Hari Nef was born in Philadelphia [4] into a Jewish family. Her parents are David Neff, an advertising executive, [4][9] and Robin Clebnik. [8] Her parents divorced when she was two and she was raised by her mother in Newton, Massachusetts. [8]
Feb 3, 2022 · Although it's not yet very common, there is a trans rabbi who has made a name for herself in the Jewish community. Abby Chava Stein was born in 1991, so she’s very close in age to And Just Like That ’s Rabbi Jen. Similar to Hari, who has paved the way for many trans women in acting and modeling, Abby has done the same in Judaism.
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Nov 17, 2016 · Hari Nef is a 24-year-old Jewish American actor, model, and activist. She’s also the first transgender model to be signed to a major modeling agency (IMG), not to mention the first to land an Elle British cover.
Jun 16, 2015 · Sitting in makeup at the Standard East Village for her first Vogue.com shoot, Hari Nef, the 22-year-old transgender model and actress recently signed to IMG Worldwide, is telling us that she’s...
They buy up rainbow-themed kippahs and decorations for the party and hire a transgender rabbi (played by Jewish transgender actress Hari Nef) to work with Rock. “Who better to lead a ‘they’...
