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Who is... Hari Nef?

Who is... Hari Nef?

She’s got “It”

American actress and model Hari Nef has been named in New York magazine’s 55th-anniversary issue as a modern-day “It” girl. At 30, she is certainly setting herself up for a pretty iconic career. In 2016, shortly after her breakout role in Amazon series Transparent, she became the first openly transgender woman to grace the cover of a UK magazine. From there she’s starred other hit shows such as Netflix’s You and her name is even nestled among the star-studded cast of Greta Gerwig’s movie-of-the-summer Barbie. “This Barbie is a doctor,” she announced on Instagram. Nef says that in today’s online world, however, it’s hard to be an “It” girl in the traditional sense… she’s not “mysterious enough” apparently.

Photograph Rodin Banica/WWD via Getty Images


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