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Ifrah in 2016, photo by Joe Seer /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: René David Ifrah
Place of Birth: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date of Birth: 2 January, 1972
Ethnicity: * father – Sephardi Jewish * mother – possibly German, Italian
René Ifrah is a German-born American actor. His roles include the shows Kommissarin Lucas , Law & Order , Nurse Jackie , Flesh and Bone , Homeland , Sneaky Pete , and The Affair , and the films September (2003) and Nancy (2018).
He was raised in Germany; Sicily, Italy, and, from the age of ten, Brooklyn, New York City, New York. He has stated :
My mom is German, my dad Israeli. He was born in Morocco as a Sephardic Jew and then moved to Israel as a little boy and grew up in a Kibbutz.
My mom is German, my dad Israeli. He was born in Morocco as a Sephardic Jew and then moved to Israel as a little boy and grew up in a Kibbutz.
He is also said to have Italian and German ancestry.