The beautiful and talented Bar Paly has really been coming into her own over the past few years, with a number of impressive roles to her name on both the big screen and the small screen along the way. Meanwhile, Bar is also signed up to plenty more big screen projects for the coming years, with a number of new movies heading our way in the near future.
One of the new Bar Paly movies that we are most looking forward to seeing, is the upcoming film Headlock, which really does sound like it could be a very exciting movie indeed. It will also give us yet another look at the acting talent which Bar Paly has to go along with her stunningly beautiful looks.
Headlock has been officially described as “After new CIA recruit, Kelley Chandler is seriously injured during a mission, surviving only on life support, his wife Tess, a former CIA operative, becomes determined to find out what happened to her husband. As the details of Kelley’s last mission unravel, showing that his accident was an inside job, Tess puts everything on the line to keep Kelley out of harm’s way, even if that comes with dangerous consequences.”
As well as starring Bar Paly in the movie, Headlock also boasts a very impressive number of acting talent, including the likes of Dianna Agron, Justin Bartha, and Andy Garcia, among others. Meanwhile, as well as writing and directing the movie Mark Polish will also star in the lead role of Headlock, which is currently in post production and awaiting an official release date. We look forward to it!
Pain & Gain and Non-Stop actress Bar Paly is an ace poker player who makes grown men crumble like old granola. Her ideal date is shooting you in the face in paintball, a game she calls herself a “psycho” at. She got her start in Israeli theater, as Shakespeare’s murderous Lady Macbeth (“Out, damned spot!”) at age 12.
Okay, we might have made that last one up. It turns out Paly did get her start in Shakespeare, though playing a non-speaking, dancing fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. But that’s about where the trail of fairy dust ends for the Tel Aviv vixen whose name means literally, as she put it to us, “something wild and undomesticated.”
Born in the former U.S.S.R. but raised in Israel, Paly grew up on action flicks like The Terminator. “Shit’s blowing up!” she says. “There are robots! Yeah, quote that—‘Shit’s blowing up.’ Isn’t that what all action movies are about?”
Through modelling, she eventually found her way to the States, where she broke loose on the big screen as Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson’s squeeze in Pain & Gain, training hard and taking in up to 5,000 calories a day (thanks in part to high-protein shakes) that put muscle on her slender frame. Her Terminator-inspired workout, in fact, includes Arnold presses. “In my mind,” she says, “Arnold’s and my shoulders are absolutely the same.”
But, for Paly, the action isn’t confined solely to her movie roles. “I’m a psycho when it comes to paintball,” she tells us. “I mean, if you lose, you literally get shot—and it hurts! So the stakes are high.”
Speaking of which, Paly’s also quick to deal out some (surprisingly deep) advice for winning at poker—and, dare we say, in life. “Play your opponent, and not the cards you were dealt,” she says. “You can still take a pot down with a crappy starting hand like 7-2 if you understand how to create the illusion of strength.”
Paly’s acting chops, meanwhile, are anything but illusory. Since Pain & Gain, she’s landed roles in major films like last year’s terrorist thriller Non-Stop, with Liam Neeson, and sports flick Million Dollar Arm, opposite Jon Hamm. She’s also on track for several films slated for later this year, including Urge, in which a group of friends try a drug that lets their inhibitions run free. “I’m excited to see what comes out of this one,” Paly says.
Bar Paly is a Russian-born Israeli model and actress. Paly was born in the Ural Mountains, Russian SFSR. She moved to Israel when she was seven and was raised in Tel Aviv. Paly began a career in modeling at the age of 17. In 2003, she began her career as an actress appearing in a variety of roles for both film and television. Paly has appeared in TV’s How I Met Your Mother, The Starter Wife, and the 2008 horror film The Ruins.
In 2013, Paly held roles in both Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III starring Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray, and Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain, alongside Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson. Paly is Jewish. She is married to director Ian Kessner.
Bar Paly is leading Hollywood Israeli actress and model. She was recently in conversation with Namita Nayyar President Women Fitness. Check her out at: http://www.womenfitness.net/barPaly_beautySecrets.htm
