Bar Paly

Bar Paly was born in 1982 in Nizhny Tagil

Paly was born Varvara Alexandrovna Paley in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, then part of the USSR, to Olga and Alexander Paley. She played the piano from age 4. In 1991 her family immigrated to Israel, and she grew up in Tel Aviv.

She studied theater at Aleph High School of Arts in Tel Aviv. There she acted in plays by Shakespeare and Brecht.

She began modeling at 17 and later appeared on covers of magazines such as Maxim, Rolling Stone and GQ. In 2003 she started acting in Israel, including the TV film Zehirut Matzlema. She later moved to the United States, where she had roles in The Ruins, Pain & Gain and Non-Stop.

On television she had a recurring role as Anna Kolcheck on NCIS: Los Angeles and played Helen of Troy on Legends of Tomorrow. She married screenwriter Ian Kessner in 2007, and they divorced in 2018. She became a U.S. citizen in 2016 and lives in Los Angeles.