Early life

Gavron was born in Hendon, the son of writer Martha Pichey and the late publisher Simon Gavron. His mother is American and his father was from a North London Jewish family. His paternal grandparents were British printing millionaire, philanthropist and Labour Life Peer, Robert Gavron and Hannah Fyvel, who was born in Tel Aviv. His great-grandfather was writer Tosco R. Fyvel, who worked with author George Orwell. His half-aunt (his father's half-sister) is director Sarah Gavron. Gavron has two younger brothers; Benjamin (born 1992) and Moses (born 1996). He has dual British and American citizenship. In 2008, Gavron volunteered at a kibbutz in Israel for six months.

Career

In Breaking and Entering, he played Miro, a young burglar who uses techniques from parkour to gain access to the high-tech offices of an urban landscape architect; he performed several difficult physical feats in the film. For his role, Gavron received a nomination for the Most Promising Newcomer award at the British Independent Film Awards.

Gavron played the hired assassin Duro in the second season of HBO's Rome. He also appeared in the 2008 release Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist as Dev, the gay lead singer of Nick's band.

In Inkheart, a movie adaptation of the novel of the same name, Gavron played Farid, a character from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, magically brought to life. The film was released theatrically in January 2009.

He guest starred on a few episodes of 24, as Hamid Al-Zarian, the younger brother of an assumed terrorist. He also appeared in JoJo's music video for the song "Disaster" in November 2011. Gavron played Bug (Bobby) in the TV series Life Unexpected. He was chosen as Lux's long known friend and also Lux's boyfriend.

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
2006	Breaking and Entering	Miro	Nominated - British Independent Film Awards (Most Promising Newcomer)
2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist	Dev	Also recorded and performed a song for the film. (Lead Vocals - Screw the Man)
2008	Inkheart	Farid
2012	Celeste and Jesse Forever	Rupert Bates
2012	The Cold Light of Day	Josh Shaw
2012	Mine Games	Lex
2013	Snitch	Jason Collins
2015	Tracers	Dylan

TV appearances

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2007	Rome	Duro	Episode "Son of Hades"
			Episode "These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero"
			Episode "Testudo et Lepus (The Tortoise and the Hare)"
2009	24	Hamid Al-Zarian	Episode "Day 7: 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m."
			Episode "Day 7: 4:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m."
			Episode "Day 7: 5:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m. "
2010	Life Unexpected	Bug	Recurring role
2011	Parenthood	Troy Quinn	22 November Episode as Zoe's boyfriend

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