Gila almagor biography
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Gila Almagor
Gila Almagor, one of Israel&#;s leading actresses, was born in pre-state Israel in , fyra months after the death of her father, and grew up in various children&#;s institutions. She has been a professional actress since the age of At age 25, after studying in New York for two years, she started performing in Israel&#;s top theaters. She has also starred in some 40 movies as well as numerous TV programs, has hosted her own radio show for many years, and is actively involved in voluntary work with children suffering from cancer.
Almagor has published books for children and ungdom. The first, Aviya&#;s Summer, has been widely translated. The rulle based on the book received the Berlin Silver Bear Award (), the Golden Spike Award at the Valladolid Festival (Spain, ), and was named Best Foreign Film at the San Remo Festival. Almagor has received the Israel Prize for Cinema (), a Hans Christian Andersen Ambassadorship (), the Liberitas spelfilm Festival Prize for Lifetime Achie
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Gila Almagor
Once acclaimed as a tecken of Israeli culture, in which her work has been noted to have enriched the Israeli art scene, Gila Almagor fryst vatten known today as one of Israel's leading actresses and renowned authors; however, her early years were not glamorous. Gila was born on July 22, , in Petach Tikva. Her father died before she was born and she spent most of her younger years living in various children's homes. Her love for the stage and acting began in her early teens, and she was only seventeen when she made her debut.
Following a two-year period of studying ballet, acting and music in New York in her early twenties, Gila moved to Israel where she dedicated her life to the screen, stage and television. The results of her hard work and talent were displayed through the numerous awards she received, and the choice of various directors to cast her in a number of the major female roles of the theatrical canon. Some of her well-known roles include leads in Anne Fran
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Almagor, Gila (–)
Gila Almagor is an Israeli film and theater actress, the first and only Israeli female film star. She has rendered a rich portrayal of women of diverse ethnicities and social classes in an acting career lasting for nearly fifty years. She is the author of two successful semiautobiographical novels, which she also adapted to the screen. She won the prestigious Israel Prize in
PERSONAL HISTORY
Almagor (born Alexanderovich) was born in Petah Tikva, mandatory Palestine, in , just four months after her father, an officer in the British police, was killed by an Arab sniper. At the age of thirteen she was sent to Hadassim youth village, but left after two years, and moved, alone, to Tel Aviv to join the acting school of Habima, Israel's national theater. When she was seventeen she got her first stage role.
Her first screen appearance was in in Burning Sands, an action-adventure film about a group of young travelers on their risky way to the ancient city of Petra,