Raz Degan

Raz Degan was born in 1968 in Sde Nehemia

Raz Degan was born on August 25, 1968, at Kibbutz Sde Nehemia in northern Israel. His parents are Adina and Eliya Degan, and he has 2 brothers who live abroad. He holds Israeli and American citizenship.

After his military service he worked as a model in Italy in the early 1990s. He signed with the Milan agency Riccardo Gay Model Management and appeared in international ad campaigns for brands such as Coca-Cola and Levi's.

In the late 1990s he moved to acting, and in 1997 he studied at the Lee Strasberg acting school in New York. He played Darius III in Alexander in 2004, the lead in Ermanno Olmi's One Hundred Nails in 2007, and Alberto da Giussano in Barbarossa in 2009.

In 2016 he directed The Last Shaman, a documentary on Amazonian shamanic healing, with Leonardo DiCaprio as executive producer. He won the twelfth season of L'Isola dei Famosi in 2017 and created and hosted Raz & The Tribe in 2018. He also photographs indigenous cultures and remote places.

He has lived in a converted trullo in Ostuni, Puglia, where he combines acting with farming. In January 2025 he joined the cast of the RAI 1 drama Un passo dal cielo.