Angel Bonanni

Ángel Bonanni
Ángel Bonanni
Born	7 February 1972 (age 52); Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality	Israel, Uruguay
Occupation(s)	model, actor, singer

Ángel Bonanni (Hebrew: אנחל בונני;Montevideo, Uruguay 7 February 1972) is a Uruguayan-Israeli actor and model.^[1]^[2]In Israel, he is known for his model campaigns and acting roles in TV and film projects ,such as the Israeli thriller series, False Flag (Kfulim) (2015-2019). He is also known to international audiences for his English-language roles on American television. He had a recurring role on Shots Fired (2017) and a regular role as Detective Tommy Gibbs in Absentia (2017-2019). He was part of the main cast of the first season of Condor (2018), playing assassin Deacon Mailer. He also played Yonatan Netanyahu in the film, Entebbe (2018).

Early life

Bonanni was born in Montevideo, after which his family moved to Australia. They returned to Uruguay when he was 5 years old, and moved again, this time to Israel, when he was 11. He grew up in Nof HaGalil.

Career

Model

After high school in Israel, Bonnani returned to Uruguay, where he pursued a career as a male model. He became a top model, appearing in fashion campaigns for Jean Paul Gaultier, Donna Karan and Banana Republic as well as appearing in magazines such as Harper's Bazaar.^[3]^[4]

Actor

Bonanni has had several screen roles acting in Hebrew, Spanish and English.

In Israel, he has starred in a number of high-profile film and television projects. In 2011, he had a leading role in the romantic comedy, Salsa Tel Aviv. In 2014, he appeared alongside Gal Gadot in the comedy-sports film Kicking Out Shoshana. Between 2015 and 2019, he starred as Sean Tilson in two seasons of the Israeli thriller series, False Flag (Kfulim).

He is also known to Spanish-speaking audiences for a number of projects. In 2013 he played the role of Boris Krakof in the Argentine soap opera, Solamente vos. He played an attractive chef who seeks to conquer the heart of Aurora (Natalia Oreiro), and in the process, make Juan jealous (Adrián Suar). In 2020-2021 he played Joseph in the Spanish historical drama series, El Cid. The following year, he appeared in the Spanish-Colombian film, What Lucía Saw, a film about the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador.

He has also had a number of English-speaking roles.^[5] In 2017, he had a recurring role as Javier Cano in the American drama miniseries, Shots Fired. In the same year he was cast as a series regular, playing Detective Tommy Gibbs in the American thriller drama television series, Absentia. In 2018, Bonanni played Yoni Netanyahu in Seven Days in Entebbe.^[6] In the same year he was a series regular on the American thriller television series, Condor.^[7]^[8]

Music

In 2012 Bonanni branched out into music, releasing an album with a collaborator, Gal Padeh.^[9] The duo released music in English and used the name Project Passport. Their debut single, 'Borrowed Time' is featured in the 2015 English-language Israeli horror film, JeruZalem.

Personal life

He married Andrea Leitersdorf in 2014, and they have two children.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Screenz		TV series
2007-2008	Ulai Hapa'am		6 episodes
2008-2009	Hasufim (Exposed)	Ophir Zdof	Series regular
2009	Tamid oto chalom (Mary Lou)	Shlomi	TV series musical
2011	Salsa Tel Aviv	Yoni	Film
2012	Leak		Short film
2012	Rock Ba-Caspa	Chaliba	Film
2013	Solamente vos	Boris	Argentine telenovela Series regular
2014	Kicking Out Shoshana	Liran Shimoni	Film
	The Gordin Cell	Kicking Out Shoshana	3 episodes
	Shovrei Galim	Chili	Series regular
2015	Zaguri Imperia	Arik	1 episode
2015-2019	False Flag (Kfulim)	Sean Tilson	Series regular
2017	Shots Fired	Javier Cano	Recurring role
2017-2019	Absentia	Detective Tommy Gibbs	Series regular
2018	Entebbe	Yonatan Netanyahu	Film
2018	Condor	Deacon Mailer (assassin)	S1 series regular
2020	Juda		7 episodes
2020-2021	El Cid	Joseph	3 episodes
2022	What Lucía Saw	Chidester	Spanish-Colombian film
2022	Paris Boutique	Daniel	Film
2023	Treyder	Paul Chester	Russian TV series Recurring role
2023	The Engineer	Avi	Film
2024	Escobank	Emilio	Post-production
2024	Like Ashes in Your Coffee	Mr. Segal	Post-production

References

^ Jessica Steinberg (6 April 2016). "The hunk who got transferred to Tennessee". Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 7 June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
^ Amy Spiro (26 August 2018). "Five Israeli actors making their mark on Hollywood". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019. Angel Bonanni may have been born in Uruguay, but he moved to Israel at a young age, and got his first big breaks in Israeli TV. Bonanni appeared in a long series of Israeli programs, and in 2015, he starred in the Keshet program False Flag, which received much critical acclaim, appeared at festivals around the world and was picked up by Fox. Since then, Bonanni has appeared in a series of Hollywood productions, including playing Yoni Netanyahu in the 2018 film Entebbe. Last year, the actor starred in the AXN series Absentia, and he appeared in four episodes of the 10-part Fox miniseries Shots Fired. Currently, Bonanni can be seen in the Audience Network's Condor, which just wrapped up its first season on the air.
^ "Israel's leading male model and a NYU graduate musical producer collaborate for a new folk rock duo called 'Project Passport'". Size Doesn't Matter. 31 January 2012. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2020. The duo consists of musical producer and composer Gal Padeh and renowned Israeli fashion model Angel Bonnani, who has ventured into acting and singing.
^ "What do these actors and actresses have in common?". Time Out Israel. 16 May 2017. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2020. Angel Bonanni started his career off as a top model, so everyone was surprised when the picture-perfect model of a man got transferred to Tennessee to join the cast of the FOX series, Shots Fired.
^ Amy Spiro (8 December 2017). "Operation Thunderbolt comes to the silver screen". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 7 June 2018. Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is played by beloved Israeli actor Lior Ashkenazi, and Yoni Netanyahu, the younger brother of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is portrayed by Uruguayan-Israeli Angel Bonanni. The British Eddie Marsan plays Shimon Peres, who was defense minister at the time of the operation.
^ Amanda N'Duka (15 November 2016). "Matt Gerald Boards David Ayer's 'Bright'; Angel Bonanni Cast In 'Entebbe'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2016. Angel Bonanni has landed a role in the Jose Padilha-directed drama Entebbe, written by Greg Burke.
^ Denise Petski (12 April 2017). "'Condor': William Hurt & Bob Balaban To Topline Audience Network Series; Full Cast Set". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 3 April 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018. Also joining the cast are series regulars Leem Lubany (Omar, Rock the Kasbah), Kristen Hager (The Kennedys After Camelot, Gotham), and Angel Bonanni (Shots Fired, Absentia); and recurring Christina Moses (The Originals, Containment), Katherine Cunningham (NCIS), Gabriel Hogan (Heartland) and Kristoffer Polaha (Life Unexpected).
^ Peter White (30 July 2019). "Apple Developing English-Language Remake Of Keshet International's Israeli Thriller 'False Flag'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 23 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019. Directed by Oded Raskin, it starred Ishai Golan, Maggie Azarzar, Angel Bonanni, Ania Bukstein and Orna Salinger.
^ Uri Zer Aviv (9 February 2012). "Passport to Success: Model-actor Angel Bonanni wants the Internet to know that he can also sing". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019. Now Bonanni is also a singer, in a new duo, Project Passport, together with the guitarist and producer Gal Padeh. Three singles are already being played on the radio from their first album, "State of Grace," which has six songs, all of them in English, and is being distributed on the Internet.

External links

Angel Bonanni at IMDb

[TimesOfIsrael2016-04-06-1] Jessica Steinberg (6 April 2016). "The hunk who got transferred to Tennessee". Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 7 June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018.

[JerusalemPost2018-08-26-2] Amy Spiro (26 August 2018). "Five Israeli actors making their mark on Hollywood". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019. Angel Bonanni may have been born in Uruguay, but he moved to Israel at a young age, and got his first big breaks in Israeli TV. Bonanni appeared in a long series of Israeli programs, and in 2015, he starred in the Keshet program False Flag, which received much critical acclaim, appeared at festivals around the world and was picked up by Fox. Since then, Bonanni has appeared in a series of Hollywood productions, including playing Yoni Netanyahu in the 2018 film Entebbe. Last year, the actor starred in the AXN series Absentia, and he appeared in four episodes of the 10-part Fox miniseries Shots Fired. Currently, Bonanni can be seen in the Audience Network's Condor, which just wrapped up its first season on the air.

[sizedoesntmatter-3] "Israel's leading male model and a NYU graduate musical producer collaborate for a new folk rock duo called 'Project Passport'". Size Doesn't Matter. 31 January 2012. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2020. The duo consists of musical producer and composer Gal Padeh and renowned Israeli fashion model Angel Bonnani, who has ventured into acting and singing.

[timeout-4] "What do these actors and actresses have in common?". Time Out Israel. 16 May 2017. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2020. Angel Bonanni started his career off as a top model, so everyone was surprised when the picture-perfect model of a man got transferred to Tennessee to join the cast of the FOX series, Shots Fired.

[JerusalemPost2017-12-08-5] Amy Spiro (8 December 2017). "Operation Thunderbolt comes to the silver screen". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 7 June 2018. Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is played by beloved Israeli actor Lior Ashkenazi, and Yoni Netanyahu, the younger brother of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is portrayed by Uruguayan-Israeli Angel Bonanni. The British Eddie Marsan plays Shimon Peres, who was defense minister at the time of the operation.

[deadline2016-11-15-6] Amanda N'Duka (15 November 2016). "Matt Gerald Boards David Ayer's 'Bright'; Angel Bonanni Cast In 'Entebbe'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2016. Angel Bonanni has landed a role in the Jose Padilha-directed drama Entebbe, written by Greg Burke.

[Deadline2017-04-12-7] Denise Petski (12 April 2017). "'Condor': William Hurt & Bob Balaban To Topline Audience Network Series; Full Cast Set". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 3 April 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018. Also joining the cast are series regulars Leem Lubany (Omar, Rock the Kasbah), Kristen Hager (The Kennedys After Camelot, Gotham), and Angel Bonanni (Shots Fired, Absentia); and recurring Christina Moses (The Originals, Containment), Katherine Cunningham (NCIS), Gabriel Hogan (Heartland) and Kristoffer Polaha (Life Unexpected).

[Deadline2019-07-30-8] Peter White (30 July 2019). "Apple Developing English-Language Remake Of Keshet International's Israeli Thriller 'False Flag'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 23 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019. Directed by Oded Raskin, it starred Ishai Golan, Maggie Azarzar, Angel Bonanni, Ania Bukstein and Orna Salinger.

[Haaretz2012-02-09-9] Uri Zer Aviv (9 February 2012). "Passport to Success: Model-actor Angel Bonanni wants the Internet to know that he can also sing". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019. Now Bonanni is also a singer, in a new duo, Project Passport, together with the guitarist and producer Gal Padeh. Three singles are already being played on the radio from their first album, "State of Grace," which has six songs, all of them in English, and is being distributed on the Internet.

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