One of her favorite sayings in Hebrew is “Ani po aval halev sheli sham,” which translates as “I am here but my heart is there.” The actress lost one of her best friends to a bomb attack in Israel at 16 and although she moved to America aged 17 to pursue her showbiz dreams, issues in the Middle East are never far from her mind.
Lavi, 30, plays a Yemeni freedom fighter named Sheba in the series, which returns to Fox on Tuesday, April 4, after nearly eight years away. Invar Lavi’s Instagram captioned “Prison Break.