Shani Cohen

Shani Cohen was born in 1980 in Petah Tikva

Shani Cohen was born on September 7, 1980, in Petah Tikva. She is the eldest daughter of a lawyer of Egyptian Jewish descent and an Israeli-born educator of Iraqi descent. In 1995 the family moved to Hod Hasharon, where she studied theater at Hadarim High School.

In the IDF she served in the 101st Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade. In 2004 she finished 3 years of acting studies at the SLA theater studio founded by Yoram Levinstein.

She began on stage at Habima in 2004 and played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady in 2013. On television she appeared in Only in Israel, Amal'la and Danny Hollywood, and voiced the puppet Abigail on Rechov Sumsum. Since 2010 she has impersonated public figures on Eretz Nehederet.

She later acted in the series The Estate, The Cops and Alumim. In 2023 she appeared in the films Sand Grains and Gan Kofim. She is married to Gilad Varobel and lives in Tel Aviv.