Uri Gavriel
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Uri Gavriel
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3 April 1955 Bnei Brak, Israel |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1982–present |
Uri Gavriel (Hebrew: אורי גבריאל; born April 3, 1955) is an Israeli theater, film and TV actor. Winner of the Ophir Award and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005 as Best Actor in film "What a Wonderful Place".
Uri Gavriel was born in 1955 in the Magdiel transit camp in Israel, to Iraqi Jewish immigrants Bertha and Gabriel Gavriel. When he was five, the family moved to Jaffa. When Gavriel was 12 years old the family moved to the neighborhood of Tel Giborim and from it to the secular Pardes Katz within the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak.
After serving his mandatory military service, Gavriel continued to work as an actor. Between the years 1977 - 1979 he studied acting and theater in Nissan Nativ's acting studio.
In 1974 he played a cameo role in one of the episodes of the children's show Ha'Yladim Mi'Shchunat Chaim, in which he played a thief. In 1984 he played in a guest role in the TV series Close Relatives in which he portrayed a cop.
In 1989 he played a role in children's television series Htzatzkanim. In 1999 he played Rabbi Baruch Levy in two episodes of the Israeli TV series Florentine and the father of David in the series "Good Guys".
In 2005 Gavriel took part in the TV series "Jaffa Pictures" in which he acted alongside Orna Banai and in the Israeli telenovela Telenovela Ltd.. In 2006 Gavriel participated in the TV series Parashat Ha-Shavua.
In 1982 Gavriel starred in the film Mitahat La'af in which he played the hardcore Mizrahi criminal Sami Ben Tovim, alongside Moshe Ivgy. For his role in the film Gavriel won the Player of the Year award in Haifa's Film Festival. In the same year Gavriel acted in the film Dead End Street' in which he acted alongside Hanna Maron and Tiki Dayan.
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