Liraz Charhi

Liraz Charhi was born in 1978 in Ramla

Liraz Charhi was born in Ramla in 1978 to a Jewish family from Iran. She grew up in Ramat HaSharon and Herzliya. She is the niece of the singer Rita.

She sang in a children's choir in Herzliya and studied theater at the Yuval high school there. She acted at the Habima Theatre as a child. After her army service, she studied acting at Beit Zvi from 1999 to 2001.

In 2004 she played in Avi Nesher's film Turn Left at the End of the World and was nominated for an Ophir Award. She later appeared in the American films Fair Game and A Late Quartet. In 2020 she played the Mossad agent Yael Kadosh in the series Tehran.

Her debut album came out in 2005, and she has released 6 studio albums in Hebrew and Persian. Her Persian albums Naz and Zan came out in 2018 and 2020. She also acted in theater and dubbed characters into Hebrew.

In June 2025 she said her international music career had faced setbacks since the October 7 attacks, and she moved to another record label. She is married to the actor Tom Avni, and they have 2 daughters.