Acting
Hari Nef interned with casting director Jennifer Venditti while she was a student. She also worked as an intern at the Soho fashion house VFILES and hosted events at the Diamond Horseshoe and Up & Down. In 2013, she made her screen debut in the film “Hellaware.” But, her breakout role in the gender-bending TV series “Transparent,” as Gittel, debuted in 2015.
She appeared in two short films, “Self Conscious” and “Family Tree” as well as “The Black Soft’s” newest music video, “Keep Away,” all in the same year. She also made cameos in the short films “First Date,” “A-Z of Hair,” and “Crush” (2016). (2022). She debuted in 2018 in the Lifetime psychological thriller television series “You” in the recurring character of Blythe. She was chosen to play a significant role in Sam Levinson’s comedy-thriller “Assassination Nation” in the same year.
Recent works and upcoming projects
In the same year, she made her Broadway debut in “Daddy,” a play by Jeremy O. Harris, playing the lead role. Afterwards, she co-starred with Ruby Rose, Paris Berelc, Taylor Zakhar Perez, and Nicholas Coombe in the comedy movie “1Up” in 2022. She performed in “Des Moines,” written by Denis Johnson, at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn that same year.
She will also be a leading lady in the upcoming movies Barbie by Greta Gerwig, Extrapolations on Apple TV+, and the drama series The Idol on HBO. Also, she will also appear in The Seagull, Thomas Bradshaw’s version of the well-known Chekhov play, in its world premiere, starring Parker Posey, Patrick Foley, and Nat Wolff.
Writing
She has written biographies on a variety of artists and cultural icons, including painter Nash Glynn, singer/actress Cristina Ortiz Rodriguez, and the Spanish biographical television series Veneno by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi.
She also frequently contributed a sex advice and experience column to Adult magazine, edited by Sarah Nicole Prickett. Her writing has been published in publications like Artforum, Dazed, Vice, Original Plumbing, L’Officiel, and BlackBook.
Modeling
In 2014, she appeared on the cover of Frische Magazine. She was on Dazed’s 100 lists at number 68 for the same year. She twice appeared in the i-D Pre-Fall Issue and was named first overall in the Dazed Readers 100. Also, she once again appeared in the shows for Adam Selman, VFiles, Vejas, Degen, and Eckhaus Latta during New York Fashion Week in 2015. She joined IMG Models in May of the same year, becoming the first openly transgender model to join the agency.
She was included in The Forward newspaper’s Forward 50, a list of the top 50 Jewish Americans from the previous year. Also, she was depicted on one of the “Elle” magazine collectors’ covers. Also, it marked the debut of a woman who was openly transsexual on the cover of a significant commercial British publication. With Blake Lively, Lara Stone, and Xiao Wen Ju, she appeared in a television ad for the L’Oréal Paris True Match line later in January 2017. She walked nine runways during New York Fashion Month for the spring/summer of 2023.
Awards and Achievements
In the category of Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Awards, Hari Nef has only received one nomination. She hasn’t received any significant honors or recognition, though, thus far in her career.
