Raz Degan

Raz Degan is an actor director and cinematographer born in a Kibbutz of Sde Nehemia in Israel to Ilan and Adina Degan he has two brothers who also live and work abroad At the age of 21 and after three years military service in the Israeli Army he became a male model and began traveling He has had exhibitions throughout 20142016 in Italy Israel and Indonesia Degan was initially discovered in New York City as a male model and subsequently worked in the film industry By the mid1990s Degan was based in Italy and starred in a series of Italian commercials he also had roles in several television films and played minor parts in cinematographic films In 1994 he had a cameo role in Robert Altmans 1994 film PrêtàPorter In 2004 he secured the role of Darius III in Oliver Stones film Alexander In 2005 Degan played the lead role in Ermanno Olmis film One Hundred Nails which opened the 2007 Cannes Film Festival In 20082009 he continued to star in various Italian film productions playing different roles including hero and villain In 2009 he costarred in Barbarossa starring Dutch actor Rutger Hauer in the title role During 2010 Degan played in the French film Forces spéciales alongside Diane Kruger and Djimon Hounsou After filming was completed Degan continued travelling in Tajikistan and Afghanistan across the Pamir Mountains range and then into Tibet and Nepal shooting short documentaries for Italian television Also in 2010 Degan hosted Mistero on Italia for two seasons making several documentaries In 2013 Degan worked as the director of photography for the documentary The Green Prince which received several awards including the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival He was also nominated for several awards for his cinematography Degan made his directorial debut in 2016 after spending a few years travelling through the Peruvian Amazon working on an international feature documentary called The Last Shaman The film was executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and was released in 2017 Source Article Raz Degan from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30