Inbar Lavi
Inbar Lavi is an actor, born 1986.
Almost everything worth seeing Inbar Lavi in is television, and almost all of it casts her as a woman working an angle. Underemployed gave her Raviva in 2012, Gang Related made her Vee in 2014, and Prison Break brought her in as Sheba, but the part that made the case was Maddie Jonson in Imposters, the Bravo series she led across 2017 and 2018.
Imposters rewards her range because the role is written as several people. She has to be convincingly in love more than once, with different men and in different keys, and the series only holds together if the audience half believes each version.
Lucifer used a narrower slice of the same ability. As Eve across the final three seasons she plays enthusiasm as a genuinely disruptive force, a character who wants everything immediately, which is a hard note to hold without becoming grating.
Her home-market work is worth knowing about too: she appears in Fauda as Shani Russo. The film credits are thinner and more scattered, Sonia in The Last Witch Hunter, parts in Bau, Artist at War and Black Diamond, and none of them has yet given her what television has.
Movies (5)
TV (6)
Where to start with Inbar Lavi
The case for her is Imposters, a con comedy that keeps changing who the audience is supposed to worry about, with Lavi playing several different women inside one part. Nothing else on her resume asks for that much.
Lucifer is the bigger audience and a fair second stop; Eve arrives late and changes the temperature of the show. Prison Break uses her well in the revival, and Fauda is the best-made series she has been in, though it is a large ensemble and she is one thread in it.
Skip The Last Witch Hunter unless you are completing the list. Bau, Artist at War is the film to try if you want her in something serious, and Gang Related is the early network work for anyone curious how she got here.