Age: 41
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Bar Paly is an Israeli-American actress and model best known for her recurring role as Anna Kolcheck on the long-running crime drama NCIS: Los Angeles (2015–2023). Born Varvara Alexandrovna Paley in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, she immigrated to Israel at age seven and was raised in Tel Aviv, where she later attended the Aleph High School of Arts. After beginning her career in Israeli productions and as a model, she moved to Los Angeles in her early twenties to pursue Hollywood stardom. Paly gained significant recognition for her role as Sorina Luminita in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain (2013) and has appeared in films such as The Ruins (2008), Non-Stop (2014), and Million Dollar Arm (2014), as well as television series like How I Met Your Mother and DC's Legends of Tomorrow. A naturalized U.S. citizen since 2016, she was previously married to director Ian Kessner and continues to be a prominent figure in both the American and Israeli entertainment industries.
Dr. Kirk Langstrom is a brilliant WayneEntreprise researcher, happily married to one of his colleagues, Francine. However, Kirk gradually begins to lose his hearing and since he doesn't want to be condemned to no longer hear the sound of his wife's voice, he set to work on a cure. Desperate, he began working with samples of bat DNA, before testing the serum on himself. This turned him into a horrible humanoid bat with an uncontrollable thirst for blood ! Kirk regained his true appearance the next morning but, despite the horrors that his alter-ego can cause, he secretly continued to take serum, because it temporarily allows him to completely cover his hearing and because he feels good as a winged creature ! Wanting to create a cure, the good Doctor created a new monster that terrorized Gotham: Man-Bat !
