Lior Ashkenazi (born in Ramat Gan, 1969), is an award-winning Israeli screen and stage actor.
Lior ("Louis") Ashkenazi was born to Jewish immigrants from Turkey who moved to Israel in 1964. He grew up in the Neveh Yehoshua neighborhood in Ramat Gan. His father, Shmuel, worked as a printer. His mother, Victoria, was a housewife. His parents spoke Ladino at home. At the age of 16, in the wake of problems in school, he moved to Kibbutz Regavim.
In the Israel Defense Forces, he served as a paratrooper