Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 10, 1943
Credits
30 titles
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).
Known For
Filmography
Eleanor the Great
Bessie
Grotesquerie
Mumbling Hospital Patient
High Potential
Miriam Weisman
Unspoken
Mrs. Helfgott
Hunters
Esther Schwartzman
Little America
Tree #3
Nurit
Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats
Yolanda Moskowitz
Porcelain Unicorn
Older Woman
Monk
Mrs. Zlatavich
Bella Mafia
Sister Giuliana
A Call to Remember
Renya Weiss
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Peter's Mother
7th Heaven
Charlotte Kerjesz
JAG
Mrs. Minas
Waterworld
Atoller
ER
Patient's Wife
The Disappearance of Christina
Anna
Final Analysis
Dr. Grusin
The Last Love of Laura Adler
Laura
From the Dead of Night
Elena
Lady in White
Mrs. Agnes Cilak
Roses Are for the Rich
Daisy
Roses Are for the Rich
Daisy
Young Harry Houdini
Mrs. Weiss
The Deliberate Stranger
Eleanor Rose
The Deliberate Stranger
Eleanor Rose
The Execution
Daniel
Grandmother
St. Elsewhere
Vera Anya