Daliah Lavi (Daliah Lewinbuk, Hebrew: דליה לביא; 12 October 1942 - 3 May 2017) was an Israeli actress, singer, and model. With the decline of her film career, Lavi was discovered by record producer Jimmy Bowien and began a successful schlager singing career in Germany, with hits such as "Oh, wann kommst du?", "Willst du mit mir gehn?" and "C'est ça, la vie (So ist das Leben)". She recorded German-language covers of a.o. Melanie Safka's Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma (Wer hat mein Lied...
Daliah Lavi (Daliah Lewinbuk, Hebrew: דליה לביא; 12 October 1942 - 3 May 2017) was an Israeli actress, singer, and model. With the decline of her film career, Lavi was discovered by record producer Jimmy Bowien and began a successful schlager singing career in Germany, with hits such as "Oh, wann kommst du?", "Willst du mit mir gehn?" and "C'est ça, la vie (So ist das Leben)". She recorded German-language covers of a.o. Melanie Safka's Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma (Wer hat mein Lied so zerstört, Ma?) and Gordon Lightfoot's If You Could Read My Mind (Wär ich ein Buch).
Lavi was born in Shavei Zion, British Mandate of Palestine, to Jewish parents from Germany and Russia. She studied ballet in Stockholm, Sweden, where she appeared in her first film Hemsöborna (1955). Returning to Israel, her career took off in 1960, when she started appearing in a large number of European and American productions. Fluent in several languages, she has also been in German-, French-, Italian-, Spanish- and English-language films.
Lavi's film appearances include Vincente Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), Mario Bava's gothic classic La Frusta e il corpo, or The Whip and the Body (1963), the role of The Girl in Lord Jim and the first Matt Helm film, The Silencers (1966), opposite Dean Martin. However, her best-known role is probably as 'The Detainer/007' in Casino Royale (1967). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
