Rafi Gavron biography
Date of birth : 1989-06-24
Date of death : -
Birthplace : Hendon, London, England
Nationality : English
Category : Arts and Entertainment
Last modified : 2011-11-02
Credited as : Actor, Life Unexpected,
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Rafi was born in Hendon, the son of writer Martha Pichey and the late publisher Simon Gavron. His mother is American-born and his father was from a North London, Jewish family.His paternal grandparents were millionaire philanthropist Robert Gavron and Hannah Fyvel.
In Breaking and Entering, he played Miro, a young burglar who uses techniques from parkour to gain access to the high-tech offices of an urban landscape architect; he performed several difficult physical feats in the film. For his role, Gavron received a nomination for the Most Promising Newcomer award at the British Independent Film Awards.
Gavron played the hired assassin Duro in the second season of HBO's Rome. He also appeared in the 2008 release Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist as Dev, the gay lead singer of Nick's band.
In Inkheart, a movie adaptation of the novel of the same name, Gavron played Farid, a character from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, magically brought to life. The film was released theatrically in January 2009.
He recently guest starred on a few episodes of 24, as Hamid Al-Zarian, the younger brother of an assumed terrorist. In May 2009, he was chosen as the love interest of Miley Cyrus' character for the film The Last Song. However, the role was later given to actor Liam Hemsworth.
Since 2010 he is playing Bug in Life Unexpected and in october 2011 he had an appearence in the movie Parenthood,as Troy Quinn, Zoe's boyfriend.
He also appeared in Jojo's music video "Disaster" on november 1st 2011,as her boyfriend.
