Hari Nef is an American actress, model and writer. Nef made her runway debut at New York Fashion Week Spring 2015, walking for both Hood By Air and Eckhaus Latta. Nef is known for speaking about trans issues. She is the first openly transgender person to appear on the cover of a major British magazine.
Early life and education
Hari Nef was born in Philadelphia into a Jewish family. Her parents are David Neff, an advertising executive, and Robin Clebnik. Her parents divorced when she was two and she was raised by her mother in Newton, Massachusetts. She began attending Columbia University in 2011 and graduated with a degree from the theater program in May 2015.
Career
Her writing has appeared in Dazed, Vice, Original Plumbing, and BlackBook. She has also written a regular sex advice/experience column at Adult magazine. In 2014, Nef was on the cover of Frische Magazine. That same year, she was placed at number 68 on Dazeds 100 list. Nef also moved to the top of the Dazed Readers 100, ranking number one overall, and appeared in the i-D Pre-Fall Issue twice. In 2015, she again walked shows during New YorkFashion Week, including Adam Selman, VFiles, Vejas, Degen, and Eckhaus Latta once more. In May 2015, Nef was signed to IMG Models, making her the first openly transgender model signed to that agency. In the summer of 2015, Nef was cast in the second season of Amazon Prime's Transparent, which debuted in December 2015. She also starred in The Drums' music video "There is Nothing Left" in August. In 2015, The Forward newspaper included her in the Forward 50, a list of the year's 50 most influential Jewish-Americans. Elle printed special collectors' covers for their September 2016 issue, and one of them featured Nef, which was the first time an openly transgender woman had been on the cover of a major commercial British magazine. In January 2017, Nef starred in a television commercial for the L'Oréal Paris True Match line alongside Blake Lively, Lara Stone and Xiao Wen Ju. The campaign was premiered at the 2017 Golden Globe Awards telecast. Nef is one of the stars of the 2018 film Assassination Nation. In the same year, she had a recurring role as Blythe on the Lifetime thriller series You.
Theatre
In 2018 Nef had her New York theatre debut in Daddy, a play by Jeremy O. Harris.
