Neta Riskin
Birthday: Born in 1976-10-28 in Israel
Deathday: Alive
Neta Riskin is an Israeli actress and journalist. Best known for her role as Giti Weiss in the series Shtisel. Riskin coached Israeli-born American actress Natalie Portman to speak Hebrew with an Israeli accent for A Tale of Love and Darkness. Riskin was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to secular Jewish architect parents.
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שטיסל
Character: Giti Weiss
Akiva and Shulem Shtisel, father and son, sit on a little balcony overlooking streets of the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem. A year has passed since the mother died. All the other children have left the nest, and only Shulam and Akiva remain - quarreling, making up, and laughing about themselves and the rest of the world. All will change when Akiva meets Elisheva....
איש חשוב מאוד
Character: Elie Shine
Yehuda Levy, a famous actor and revered fear mature 35-year-old, suffers from panic attacks, binge eating and mood swings after a difficult separation. It meets the latest candidate to be a girl his wife and the two formed a special bond....
Kfulim
Character: Anat Kedmi
The series, loosely based on the true story of the assassination in Dubai of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - the co-founder of military wing of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on 19 January 2010, revolves around five ordinary Israeli citizens who discover one morning via the media that they are the principal suspects of a high-profile kidnapping and are implicated as culprits in the kidnapping....
The Spy
Character: Tova
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad....
איסט סייד
Character: Esti
East Side follows Momi, an ex-Secret Service agent-turned-fixer who plays by his own rules as he brokers shady property deals between the Arab residents of East Jerusalem, and the powerful Jewish groups trying to take control of the area by whatever means possible. Brooding and well-connected, Momi slips between communities with ease. But behind his cool facade, the deadly consequences of his double-dealing are taking their toll, and at the center of his world is 18-year-old autistic daughter Ma...
Der Tel-Aviv-Krimi
Character: Ronit Levi
As a criminal investigator of Jewish descent working in Berlin, Sara Stein was used to operating independently of everyone else. Her keen instincts and sound judgement enabled her to navigate sure-footedly through many sensitive cases. But it was not until she found herself investigating the murder of an Israeli DJ that politics and religion played such an important role in her life. Now facing new challenges as a detective in Tel Aviv, Sara continues to strive for truth and justice while dreami...
האיש שרצה לדעת הכל
Character: אורנה דניס
Two investigators on the tracks of a mysterious investigator who demands to know everything....
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Damascus Cover
Character: Yael
A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria....
Anywhere Else
Character: Noa
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you....
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Character: Haya
The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania....
Returnee
Character:
God's voice speaks to A. Having left religion, his home and his family, A. reflects on how good a person he is....
Saving Neta
Character: שרונה
Directed by multi-award winner Nir Bergman (Broken Wings), Saving Neta tells the stories of four women whose lives change after their brief encounter with a man called Neta. Humour, drama, love and hope, a powerful and moving portrait of family relationships and parenthood in modern life....
Shelter
Character: Naomi
Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn....
Longing
Character: Yael
Ariel, a well-off, childless man, gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. She needs to tell him a couple of very surprising things: first, when they broke up twenty years ago, she was pregnant and went on to have a lovely boy. The second thing will make Ariel explore the hidden aspects of parenthood and change his life forever....
Suicide
Character: Russian Woman
A failed businessman must kill himself to pay off a loan shark or his family will die, but a detective discovers the case turns on a shocking secret....
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
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A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new Prime Minister of Israel....