Rita Zohar
Actor
- Born
- January 10, 1943 (age 83)
Rita Zohar is an actress with a career spanning film, television, and theater. She was born during World War II in a concentration camp in Balta (then part of the Kingdom of Romania).
She emigrated to Israel with her mother in the 1950s and began acting at the Cameri Theatre, performing in Yiddish. In the 1980s she moved to the United States and appeared on television series including Quincy M.E., St. Elsewhere, and Cagney & Lacey. Her film credits from that period include Daniel (1983), Amadeus (1984), The Deliberate Stranger (1986), and Lady in White (1988). She won the Israeli Film Academy’s Best Actress award for Laura Adler’s Last Love Affair (1990).
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Her later roles include Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats (2009) and Eleanor the Great (2025).
Known for
Waterworld
July 28, 1995
Final Analysis
February 7, 1992
Lady in White
April 22, 1988
Eleanor the Great
September 4, 2025
Daniel
August 26, 1983
Bella Mafia
November 16, 1997
The Deliberate Stranger
May 4, 1986
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
November 8, 1996
A Call to Remember
August 30, 1997
The Disappearance of Christina
January 1, 1993
Young Harry Houdini
March 14, 1987
The Last Love of Laura Adler
January 2, 1990
Acting19
- 2025Eleanor the Great as Bessie
- 2024Unspoken as Mrs. Helfgott
- 2019Tree #3 as Nurit
- 2011Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats as Yolanda Moskowitz
- 2010Porcelain Unicorn as Older Woman
- 1997Bella Mafia as Sister Giuliana
- 1997A Call to Remember as Renya Weiss
- 1996The Man Who Captured Eichmann as Peter's Mother
- 1995Waterworld as Atoller
- 1993The Disappearance of Christina