Stav Strashko

Stav Strashko was born in 1992 in Dnipro

Stav Strashko was born in Dnipro, Ukraine, in 1992. In 1994 she moved to Israel with her family and grew up in Ramat Gan. Her parents divorced in 1997, and her mother remarried.

At 16 she signed with the modeling agency of Elinor Shahar as an androgynous model. In 2012 she appeared in a television ad for Toyota. She later worked for brands such as Diesel and walked in shows at New York Fashion Week in 2014.

In 2013 she played Sophie in the Israeli drama series Blue Natalie. In 2015 she was a contestant on the second VIP season of Big Brother. She later played the lead role of Eden, a Jerusalem high school student, in the film Flawless.

For Flawless she was nominated for the Ophir Award for Best Actress in 2018. She was the first transgender actress nominated in an acting category. In early 2017 she asked to be referred to in the feminine, and she defines herself as transgender.