Yael Grobglas

Yael Grobglas was born in 1984 in Paris

Grobglas was born in Paris in 1984. Her father comes from a French Jewish family, and her mother, from Austria, converted to Judaism. In 1986 the family moved to Israel and settled in Ra'anana.

She studied ballet and danced from a young age, and later worked as a model in fashion shows and ads. She studied acting at the Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio in Tel Aviv.

In 2007 she was cast as Jinny in the Israeli series The Island. In 2010 she appeared in Rabies, the first Israeli horror film, and she later acted in The Foxes and Tanuchi. She also played in Play It Again, Sam at the Beersheba Theater.

In 2013 she began a recurring role as Olivia in the CW series Reign. From 2014 to 2019 she played Petra Solano and her twin sister Anezka on Jane the Virgin. In 2015 she starred in the horror film JeruZalem.

She is married to Israeli businessman Artem Kroupenev, whom she met in high school. Their daughter was born in 2020. Since 2013 she has lived mainly in the United States and partly in Israel.