Hen Yanni

Hen Yanni (in Hebrew: חן יאני); Israeli actress and a Musician about Hen Yanni Archived 2012-12-11 at the Wayback Machine, in Hen Yanni's site</ref>

Yanni played the major role in the feature film "The Other War”, directed by Tamar Glazerman. She played a supporting role in the feature film "Melach Yam", directed by Itay Lev, where she made a Cover version to Shlomo Artzi's song "You will Never know". In 2012 she played a supporting role in Haim Buzaglo's feature film "Blank Blank".

In 2011 she starred Doron Eran's film "Melting Away", in which she played the lead role of a transgender person. Yanni played the role of Asaf, a boy who secretly wears women's clothes. When his parents (Limor Goldstein and Ami Weinberg) discover this, they throw him out of the house. Asaf goes through sex reassignment surgery and became Anna, a nightclub singer. When her father is dying of cancer, Anna's mother finds her through a private investigator. Anna returns to take care of her father under the guise of a nurse. In "Melting Away", she sings two songs, one of them is "Danny Boy".

She left home following a modeling career. During the years 1999-2003 she worked as a model in Paris, New York City and London. She photographed to the magazines Italian Vogue, French Vogue, V Magazine, The Face and ID. Her major campaigns includes companies like Paul & Joe, Dolce & Gabbana and Kenneth Cole. She was photographed by photographers like Craig McDean, David Sims and Mario Testino.

Hen Yanni was born and raised in a suburb of Northern Israel, near Haifa, to a Jewish family. In 1998, when she was fifteen she participated in a beauty contest and was chosen to girl of the year by Maariv's youth magazine.