JOEL BASMAN

Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss actor.

Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss Christian mother and an Israeli-Jewish father, both of whom were tailors in the Swiss fashion industry. He grew up in the neighborhood of Aussersihl and was raised bilingual, speaking Swiss-German and Hebrew. He has one older sister who resides in Israel.

In 2004 he started his career and played a bold teenager named Zizou for the weekly soap opera Lüthi und Blanc.