Rita Zohar
Biography
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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Full filmography
- Monk (2002) as Mrs. Zlatavich
- High Potential (2024) as Miriam Weisman
- ER (1994) as Patient's Wife
- JAG (1995) as Mrs. Minas
- St. Elsewhere (1982) as Vera Anya
- 7th Heaven (1996) as Charlotte Kerjesz
- Hunters (2020) as Esther Schwartzman
- Grotesquerie (2024) as Mumbling Hospital Patient
- Little America (2020)
- Waterworld (1995) as Atoller
- Final Analysis (1992) as Dr. Grusin
- Bella Mafia (1997) as Sister Giuliana
- Eleanor the Great (2025) as Bessie
- The Deliberate Stranger (1986) as Eleanor Rose
- Daniel (1983) as Grandmother
- Lady in White (1988) as Mrs. Agnes Cilak
- Roses Are for the Rich (1987) as Daisy
- The Deliberate Stranger (1986) as Eleanor Rose
- The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996) as Peter's Mother
- The Execution (1985)
- Young Harry Houdini (1987) as Mrs. Weiss
- Unspoken (2024) as Mrs. Helfgott
- From the Dead of Night (1989) as Elena
- The Disappearance of Christina (1993) as Anna