Yuval Gonen

Yuval Gonen was born in 1993 in Givatayim

Yuval Gonen was born Yuval Gargir in Givatayim in 1993. Her father works for the Tel Aviv municipality and her mother works in international shipping. Her grandmother's family were among the founders of the Borochov neighborhood in Givatayim.

She started dancing as a young child and trained in the dancer program of the Bikurei HaIttim center. From 2011 to 2013 she took part in an excellence project of the Batsheva company, and she danced with the Batsheva Ensemble from 2013 to 2014. From 2019 to 2022 she studied philosophy and humanities at Tel Aviv University and earned a bachelor's degree with honors.

As a young woman she worked as a model. In 2018 and 2019 she played the dancer Klil Horesh in the Disney Channel drama "Dance Story". In 2019 she began playing the lead role of Aluma Kopler, a young Magen David Adom volunteer, in "HaTachana" on kidZ, which ended in 2020.

In 2021 she played Alma in the fourth and final season of "Neelamim". In 2024 she had her first film role, playing Arishat, the wife of Lucius, in "Gladiator II". She also runs a business called "Stoa Sophia" that publishes a philosophical personal journal, and she has been married to Asaf Gonen since 2018.