Yon Tumarkin

Yon Tumarkin was born in 1989 in Jaffa

Tumarkin was born on 22 July 1989 in Jaffa and grew up there. His parents are Naama Tumarkin and the artist Yigal Tumarkin, and his paternal grandfather was the German actor Martin Hellberg. After his parents divorced, he moved with his mother to Tel Aviv.

In Tel Aviv he studied film at an arts high school. In 2018 he completed a bachelor's degree in government, diplomacy and strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

He joined the IDF in August 2007 after a deferral for his acting work. He served for 3 years in the spokesperson unit of the Ground Forces.

He began acting as a child and in 1999 appeared in the TV film Who Stole the Show. From 2001 he played the lead in the children's series Napoleon Hills Kids, and he won a Television Academy award for his role in the series The Island. In 2009 he began playing Leo, a vampire, in Split, and he later appeared in the film Rock the Casbah, the series The Nerd Club, the horror film JeruZalem and the BBC series McMafia.

He also performed at the Festigal, placing second in 2009 with the song Power of Thought. He lives in Ramat Gan.