Rita Zohar
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). Her later roles include Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats (2009) and Eleanor the Great (2025).
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Credits
- 2025 · Eleanor the Great as Bessie
- 2024 · Grotesquerie as Mumbling Hospital Patient
- 2024 · High Potential as Miriam Weisman
- 2024 · Unspoken as Mrs. Helfgott
- 2020 · Hunters as Esther Schwartzman
- 2020 · Little America as
- 2019 · Tree #3 as Nurit
- 2011 · Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats as Yolanda Moskowitz
- 2010 · Porcelain Unicorn as Older Woman
- 2002 · Monk as Mrs. Zlatavich
- 1997 · Bella Mafia as Sister Giuliana
- 1997 · A Call to Remember as Renya Weiss
- 1996 · The Man Who Captured Eichmann as Peter's Mother
- 1996 · 7th Heaven as Charlotte Kerjesz
- 1995 · JAG as Mrs. Minas
- 1995 · Waterworld as Atoller
- 1994 · ER as Patient's Wife
- 1993 · The Disappearance of Christina as Anna
- 1992 · Final Analysis as Dr. Grusin
- 1990 · The Last Love of Laura Adler as Laura
- 1989 · From the Dead of Night as Elena
- 1988 · Lady in White as Mrs. Agnes Cilak
- 1987 · Roses Are for the Rich as Daisy
- 1987 · Roses Are for the Rich as Daisy
- 1987 · Young Harry Houdini as Mrs. Weiss
- 1986 · The Deliberate Stranger as Eleanor Rose
- 1985 · The Execution as
- 1983 · Daniel as Grandmother