Eli Finish
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אלי פיניש | |
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| Born | 17 June 1975 |
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| Years active | 1996–present |
| Children | 2 |
Eli Finish (Hebrew: אלי פיניש; born 17 June 1975) is an Israeli actor, stand-up comedian and impressionist. He is well known for acting in the popular TV show Eretz Nehederet.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]After his release from the IDF in 1996, Finish studied acting in the art school HaBustan in Netanya. He also appeared in Dudu Topaz's stand-up comedy show called The First in Entertainment with Mariano Idelman in the same year, and signed a 2-year contract with the show.
Finish and Idelman continued working together with a stand-up act called Ovrim Al HaTzhok (a word play on Ovrim Al HaHok, Hebrew for "breaking the law"), and in 2001 created their own show named Ahla Seret ("A Great Movie"). In 2002 they released a 'best moments' DVD. In the same year, they appeared in a show on Bip called Lo Nafsik Litzhok ("(We) Won't Stop Laughing") along with Tal Friedman, Asi Cohen and Rotem Abuhav. The first two continued with Finish and Idelman to Eretz Nehederet in 2003.
In 2005, Finish played his first non-comic character in the TV series Hadar Milhama ("War Room"), and continued as an actor in the show Lo Hivtahti Lakh ("I Didn't Promise You") in 2006.
Eretz Nehederet
[edit | edit source]Eli Finish began his career starring in Eretz Nehederet in 2003, along with Mariano Idelman, Tal Friedman, Asi Cohen, Orna Banai, Eyal Kitzis, etc. He has parodied numerous real-life persons, including Shimon Peres, Moshe Katzav and Amir Peretz.
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Finish was married to Lital (Lulik) Gat, and they have one son together. He later had a two-year relationship with actress Dana Frieder.[2]
In 2017, he got engaged to his partner, surfing instructor Sheli Lavi. They married on October 6, 2017. On July 2, 2018 they had a daughter together. In August 2020 they separated.[3]
Finish resides in Netanya. In February 2023 his house was destroyed in a fire.[4]
External links
[edit | edit source]- Eli Finish at IMDb
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ המאליכ של הצחוק. Israel Today. 10.08.2010 (In Hebrew)
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- People from Netanya
- Israeli male television actors
- Israeli male film actors
- Israeli male voice actors
- Israeli male comedians
- Israeli stand-up comedians
- Israeli impressionists (entertainers)
- Israeli people of Tunisian-Jewish descent
- Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent
- Israeli Mizrahi Jews
- Jewish Israeli male actors
- Jewish Israeli comedians
- 20th-century Israeli male actors
- 21st-century Israeli male actors
- 20th-century Israeli comedians
- 21st-century Israeli comedians
- 20th-century Israeli Jews
- 21st-century Israeli Jews