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
All Movies (19)
- Eleanor the Great2025 · as Bessie
- Unspoken2024 · as Mrs. Helfgott
- Tree #32019 · as Nurit
- Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats2011 · as Yolanda Moskowitz
- Porcelain Unicorn2010 · as Older Woman
- Bella Mafia1997 · as Sister Giuliana
- A Call to Remember1997 · as Renya Weiss
- The Man Who Captured Eichmann1996 · as Peter's Mother
- Waterworld1995 · as Atoller
- The Disappearance of Christina1993 · as Anna
- Final Analysis1992 · as Dr. Grusin
- The Last Love of Laura Adler1990 · as Laura
- From the Dead of Night1989 · as Elena
- Lady in White1988 · as Mrs. Agnes Cilak
- Roses Are for the Rich1987 · as Daisy
- Young Harry Houdini1987 · as Mrs. Weiss
- The Deliberate Stranger1986 · as Eleanor Rose
- The Execution1985
- Daniel1983 · as Grandmother
All TV Shows (11)
- Grotesquerie2024 · as Mumbling Hospital Patient
- High Potential2024 · as Miriam Weisman
- Hunters2020 · as Esther Schwartzman
- Little America2020
- Monk2002 · as Mrs. Zlatavich
- 7th Heaven1996 · as Charlotte Kerjesz
- JAG1995 · as Mrs. Minas
- ER1994 · as Patient's Wife
- Roses Are for the Rich1987 · as Daisy
- The Deliberate Stranger1986 · as Eleanor Rose
- St. Elsewhere1982 · as Vera Anya