Maya Dagan
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
A very prominent actress, comedian and TV host, Maya Dagan has a long list of appearances in Israeli theater, film and television. She has acted many times on the stage of Beit Lessin Theater, where she performed in the musicals Chicago and Guys and Dolls and Chekov’s Uncle Vanya. In 1995 she received the Israeli Theater Prize for promising actress of the year. Maya has appeared in many TV shows alongside Israelis biggest and most famous actors. In 2010 she was the Winner of the Israeli Academy Award for her role in Avi Nesher’s hit THE MATCHMAKER.
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המפקדת
Character: Base Commander
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תמיד אותו חלום
Character: Miriam Levi
Miriam has a dream: being a famous singer, that’s why she abandoned her son Meir. Meir never stops searching for his mother—eventually moved from his small hometown to Tel Aviv, and becomes THE famous drag queen Mary Lou. As the melody plays on, Meir discovers his needs finding himself within even more than finding his mother....
אמא ואבאז
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Three parents: a gay couple and a straight single woman, who have just had a baby, and who are trying, without a GPS, to make their way through the jungle of the alternative family without any rules or generations of traditions....
מועדון לילה
Character: Self
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השיר שלנו
Character: Micky Appelbaum
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האקס המיתולוגי
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A woman explores all of her past relationships after a psychic tells her she's already dated her future husband....
יש לה את זה
Character: Vered Smolansky
Natalie, a small-town girl with big ambitions, and an equally big attitude, gets her first break in fashion, only to discover that her dreams come with a price to pay — in love, in her career and in her values — in this romantic comedy-drama set in the glamorous world of style and celebrities....
החולמים
Character: נעמי רובין
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מנאייכ
Character: Ronit Meinzer
Izzy Bachar, a police internal affairs investigator, discovers just before retirement that his long time friend Barak, a senior police officer, is accused to be corrupt. Life as he knows it breaks into pieces....
דומינו
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The Matchmaker
Character: Clara Epstein
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered....
Mazel Tov
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At a banquet hall in Israel, at the height of a war, Adam Weizmann’s Bar Mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood—and on the verge of a nervous breakdown—Adam takes a crucial step toward coming to terms with his sexuality....
The Other Story
Character: Tali Abadi
Two rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom - cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences....
Kapo in Jerusalem
Character: Sarah Reich
An exploration of the moral and survival dilemmas in Auschwitz from the point of view of a deputy head of a block and a few of the prisoners from his block who survived the horrors of the camp, immigrated to Israel in the 40's and are still struggling to begin new life in the newborn state of Israel. Based on a true story....