Early life
Gavron was born in Hendon, London, England, the son of writer Martha Pichey and the late publisher Simon Gavron. His mother is American, and his father was British. Gavron was raised in a Jewish family in North London. His paternal grandparents were Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, a British printing millionaire, philanthropist and Labour Party (UK), Labour Life Peer, and sociologist Hannah Gavron, Hannah Fyvel, who was born in Tel Aviv and committed suicide at age 29. His great-grandfather was writer T. R. Fyvel, 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). In 2008, Gavron volunteered at a kibbutz in Israel for six months.Career
In ''Breaking and Entering (film), Breaking and Entering'', Gavron played Miro, a young burglary, 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 (TV series), 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 (film), 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 (TV series), 24'', as Hamid Al-Zarian, the younger brother of an assumed terrorist. He also appeared in JoJo (singer), JoJo's music video for the song "Disaster (JoJo 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. In 2013, he co-starred in ''Snitch (film), Snitch'', playing the son of Dwayne Johnson's character. His next film roles were in the action adventure ''Tracers (film), Tracers'' (2015) and the drama ''The Land (2016 film), The Land'' (2016).Filmography
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