Hari Nef is a well-known American actress, model, and writer. Her breakthrough role was in the Amazon original series Transparent as Gittel, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2016. In Spring 2015, she made her runway debut at New York Fashion Week, walking for both Hood By Air and Eckhaus Latta. Subsequently, she became the first openly transgender woman signed to IMG Models. Also, she became the first openly transgender woman to appear on the cover of a major British magazine. She has written on a breadth of topics from fine art and film to sex, gender, and transgender identity.