Bar Paly


Bar Paly is an Israeli-American actress and model.

Biography

Paly was born in Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, to Olga and Alexander Paley. She was passionate about music in her childhood, playing the piano from age four. Her family emigrated to Israel when she was seven, and she was raised in Tel Aviv. In her school days, her interest in acting led her to enroll at the Aleph High School of the Arts, where she performed in a number of productions by William Shakespeare and Bertolt Brecht, such as the play Antigone.
Paly began a career in modeling at the age of 17. She has appeared as a cover girl in several magazines, including Maxim, Rolling Stone and GQ. In 2003, she began her career as an actress appearing in a variety of roles for television and appeared in the Israeli mockumentary Zehirut Matzlema. Paly has appeared in TV's How I Met Your Mother, The Starter Wife, and the 2008 horror film The Ruins. In 2013, Paly held roles in both Roman Coppola's A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III starring Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray, and Michael Bay's Pain & Gain, alongside Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson. Since 2015, Paly has had a recurring role as Anastasia "Anna" Kolcheck on the American crime drama . She posed for the cover of Esquires Latin American edition in May 2014.

Personal life

Paly is of Russian Jewish descent. She married Canadian director Ian Kessner in 2007. She filed for divorce 11 years later in 2018 citing "irreconcilable differences".
In August 2016, Paly became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2007'Mia OpalEpisode: "Heart of Glass"
2008The Starter WifeLolaRecurring role, 5 episodes
2008UnhitchedChloeEpisode: "Yorkshire Terrier Sucked Into the Internet"
2010How I Met Your Mother NataliaEpisode: "Rabbit or Duck"
2012UnderemployedTatianaRecurring role, 2 episodes
2012Game ShopFaux-NerdEpisode: "Faux Nerd Girl"
2015Parental IndiscretionTaylorEpisode: "Bad Blood Test"
2015–present'Recurring role, 20 episodes
2016Jean-Claude Van JohnsonKrisztinaEpisode: Pilot
2016Training DayNatalia VostokEpisode #1.1
2017BoschLeniEpisode: "The Four Last Things"
2017–2018DC's Legends of TomorrowHelen of TroyEpisode: "Helen Hunt", "The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly"
2018iZombieAmanda LewisEpisode: "Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Brain"

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011L.A. NoireMarguerite Cansito